Sendler, Irena
An incredible woman and her amazing gift to mankind. Irena Sendler. An unfamiliar name to most people, but this remarkable woman defied the Nazis and saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto. As a health…
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Sousa Mendes, Aristides de
Sousa Mendes granted visas to numerous refugees, going against the express orders of his government. For that reason, countless people began to crowd in the vicinity of the Portuguese Conculate – Portuguese visas became their only hope.
Erfurht church
Stainglass at St Mikael church (1285), Thüringen, Germany.Donator Monika Wiegandt
Fereshteh Fazeli
Fereshteh Fazeli has made a painting for “Why Raoul Wallenberg Matters” Published in Judisk Krönka may 2007
Hanalisa
Switzerland Awakens Background: Bratislava, Slovakia (Pozsony, Pressburg) Daily deportation of 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz began on May 15, 1944. Shortly thereafter a desperate Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl of the Bratislava Working Group – co-headed by Mrs Gizi Fleishmann -(background…
Paul Lancz
Paul Lancz, avoided deportation to the Nazi death camps at least in part because of diplomat Raoul Wallenberg’s courageous initiative. He began carving at the age of twelve and later studied at the Budapest School of Fine Arts. For three…
Bernard Szajner
Szajner; a French contemporary artist, created a first piece of art as a homage to Raoul Wallenberg in 1982 when together with Karel Beer, an English musician, they composed the music forming a record named : Wallenberg/Budapest. Along with the music, a text narrates Wallenberg’s fate in a way that makes it impossible for the listener to understand the story.
Berger, Susanne
Susanne Berger’s research addresses the wider political and economic aspects of Wallenberg’s humanitarian mission to Budapest, as well as their associated effects on the investigation of his disappearance. For six years she served as a consultant to the Swedish-Russian Working Group on the Fate of Raoul Wallenberg.
Birstein, Vadim
He is an expert on the subject of foreign prisoners in the Gulag, the fate of the Swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and Soviet doctors’ experimentation on humans. In 1990-91, he was a member of the International Commission on Raoul Wallenberg…
Cotler, Irwin
Canadian deputy.
Has been searching together with the Soviet-International Commission on the Fate and Whereabouts of Raoul Wallenberg Who Investigated the Kartoteka of the Vladimir Prison in August, 1990. See more at Marvin Makinen and Ari Kaplan report.