“up into the 1980s in Soviet prisons and psychiatric hospitals.”
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Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian fascists during the later stages of World War II. While serving as Sweden's special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings which…
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business · Swedish diplomat and humanitarian (1912–1945) · architect · businessperson · diplomat · banker · also Raoul Wallenberg, Wallenberg
Born 4 August 1912 · Died 1 January 1947 · Q152850
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2016· 1 entry
The Swedish Tax Agency declared him dead in absentia, with the pro forma date of death noted as 31 July 1952
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Australia (2013).
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2012· 2 entries
Russian lieutenant general Vasily Khristoforov, head of the registration branch of the Russian Federal Security Service, said that the Wallenberg case was still open
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Wallenberg was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress "in recognition of his achievements and heroic actions during the Holocaust
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2009· 2 entries
In 2009, reporter Joshua Prager wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal profiling the long-term toll that Raoul Wallenberg's disappearance had on his family.
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Reporter Joshua Prager wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal profiling the long-term toll that Raoul Wallenberg's disappearance had on his family
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Budapest (2003).
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A review of Soviet wartime correspondences indicated that Vilmos Böhm, a Hungarian politician who was also a Soviet intelligence agent, may have provided Wallenberg's name to SMERSH as a person to detain for possible inv
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2000· 2 entries
Russian prosecutor Vladimir Ustinov signed a verdict posthumously rehabilitating Wallenberg and his driver, Langfelder, as "victims of political repression"
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Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev announced that Wallenberg had been executed in 1947 in Lubyanka prison
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1993· 1 entry
From previously secret Soviet military archives and published in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet show that an order for Wallenberg's arrest was issued by Deputy Commissar for Defence (and future Soviet Premier) N
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1991· 2 entries
Vyacheslav Nikonov was charged by the Russian government with investigating Wallenberg's fate
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Dardel initiated a Swedish-Russian working group to search eleven separate military and government archives from the former Soviet Union for information about Wallenberg's fate, but the group was not able to find useful
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1990· 1 entry
By the curator of the CIA's Historical Intelligence Collection, William Henhoeffer, characterized the conclusion that Wallenberg was working for the OSS while in Budapest as being "essentially correct"
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1989· 1 entry
Wallenberg's personal belongings were returned to his family, including his passport and cigarette case
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded Raoul Wallenberg Award (1985).
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Awarded honorary Canadian citizenship (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
In an American Federal District Court over his disappearance for $39 million, or $1 million per year that Wallenberg's fate has been unknown
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1981· 3 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of the United States (1981).
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US Congressman Tom Lantos, one of those saved by Wallenberg, sponsored a bill making Wallenberg an honorary citizen of the United States, the second person ever to receive this honour, after Sir Winston Churchill
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To "perpetuate the humanitarian ideals and the nonviolent courage of Raoul Wallenberg
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1963· 2 entries
Awarded Righteous Among the Nations (1963).
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Yad Vashem designated Raoul Wallenberg as one of the Righteous Among the Nations
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1962· 1 entry
For his connection to KGB defector Oleg Penkovsky, stated that he had talked to, but could not see the face of, a man who claimed to be a Swedish diplomat
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1957· 1 entry
12 years after his disappearance, he was reported by Soviet authorities to have died of a suspected myocardial infarction on 17 July 1947 while imprisoned in the Lubyanka, the prison at the headquarters of the NKVD secre
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1955· 1 entry
That Wallenberg was interrogated once for about an hour and a half, in early February 1945
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1947· 1 entry
Died 1947-01-01.
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1945· 1 entry
The Federal Bureau of Investigation subjected the Bank to a blockade from engaging in business in the United States that was only lifted in 1947
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1938· 1 entry
The Kingdom of Hungary, under the regency of Miklós Horthy, passed a series of anti-Jewish measures modeled on the so-called Nuremberg Race Laws enacted in Germany by the Nazis in 1935
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1936· 1 entry
Securing a job in Stockholm with the help of his father's cousin and godfather, Jacob Wallenberg, at the Central European Trading Company, an export-import company trading between Stockholm and central Europe, owned by K
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1931· 1 entry
Studied architecture at the University of Michigan in the United States
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1918· 1 entry
His mother married Fredric von Dardel; they had a son, Guy von Dardel, and a daughter, Nina Lagergren
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1912· 2 entries
Born 1912-08-04.
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In Lidingö Municipality, near Stockholm, where his maternal grandparents, Per Johan Wising and his wife Sophie Wising (née Benedicks), had built a summer house in 1882
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1911· 1 entry
Were Raoul Oscar Wallenberg (1888–1912), a Swedish naval officer, and Maria "Maj" Sofia Wising (1891–1979)
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