Wallenberg died of a heart attack at age 34 on July 17, 1947, at the Lubyanka headquarters of the K.G.B. in Moscow.
On 17 January 1945, during the Siege of Budapest by the Red Army, Wallenberg was detained by SMERSH on suspicion of espionage and subsequently disappeared. He was later reported to have died on 17 July 1947 while imprisoned in the Lubyanka, the prison at the headquarters of the KGB secret police in Moscow.
A profile of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, the film covered his role in saving the lives of Jewish refugees from the Holocaust, as well as exploring the evidence that he may still have been alive in a Soviet gulag as late as the early 1980s....Raoul Wallenberg: Buried AliveLanguageEnglish11 more rows
Maj WisingHis father, also named Raoul Wallenberg, was a young naval officer when he married Maj Wising, the daughter of a celebrated neurologist, in late 1911.
By the end of the Second World War, the young architect and businessman Raoul Wallenberg saved the lives of tens and thousands Hungarian Jews. Some estimates suggest that he saved as many as 100 000 people.
Contents. In the waning days of World War II (1939-45), Raoul Wallenberg (1912- c. 1947), a Swedish businessman-turned-diplomat based in Budapest, was responsible for the rescue of thousands–some estimates are as high as 100,000–of Hungarian Jews from extermination by the Nazis.
The statue adds itself to the more than thirty monuments in the five continents dedicated to Wallenberg, paying tribute to the man who saved the lives of tens of thousands of persecuted people by the Nazi regime in occupied Hungary in 1944. Wallenberg disappeared abducted by the Soviet army on January 17th, 1945.
The Wallenbergs are thought to have combined personal wealth of just $1 billion or so, but they control, or have strong influence over, businesses worth hundreds of times as much. They do so through a number of foundations. KAW, the largest, is named after two ancestors who provided the largest endowment, 99 years ago.
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