Raol Wallenberg

Australia paid tribute on Monday to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews during World War II, by making him the country's first honorary Citizen.



Raoul Wallenberg  was born August 4, 1912 July 17, 1947. He was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian. He rescued tens of thousands to about one hundred thousand Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from Hungarian Fascists and the Nazis 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 designated as Swedish territory saving tens of thousands of lives.

 

January 17, 1945, Wallenberg was detained by Soviet authorities on suspicion of espionage and subsequently disappeared. He was later reported dead on July 17, 1947, while imprisoned in the Lubyanka, a building located in Moscow, Russia, housing both the KGB headquarters and its affiliated prison.  Sourze: Wikipedia