“One man can make a difference.”
No one is so strong – for good or evil as a man with a goal and a conviction.
This is written in the aftermath of the monstrous terrorist murder in Norway. These murders, committed through evil conviction, ended or changed the lives of hundreds of people.
“One man can make a difference.” That is the sentence written over the front door of the Raoul Wallenberg School in Brooklyn, New York – one of many schools honouring Raoul Wallenberg, a man who showed that good conviction could save thousands of lives.
Raoul Wallenberg was the young Swede sent to Budapest in the end of WW2 in order to use passports from neutral Sweden to protect Jews threatened with immediate deportation to the death camps.
He was a young man from a wealthy family, ready to risk his life for human beings he had never met and had no relation to. He and his collaborators saved tens of thousands of Jews. That has made Raoul Wallenberg – who on the 4th of August 2012 would have been one hundred years old – a symbol of unselfishness and courage.