Raoul Wallenberg

Author: Ingrid Carlberg
Publisher: MacLehose Press
ISBN: 1681445247
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 574

Book Description
An honorary citizen of the United States and Canada, and designated as one of the Righteous Among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg was a modest envoy to Hungary whose heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless Jewish lives, and ultimately cost him his own. A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, by trade a poultry importer, as Sweden's Special Envoy to Budapest in 1944. With remarkable bravery, Wallenberg created a system of protective passports, and sheltered thousands of desperate Jews in buildings he claimed were Swedish libraries and research institutes. As the war drew to a close, his invaluable work almost complete, Wallenberg voluntarily went to meet with the Soviet troops who were relieving the city. Arrested as a spy, Wallenberg disappeared into the depths of the Soviet system, never to be seen again. In this definitive biography, noted journalist Ingrid Carlberg has carried out unprecedented research into all elements of Wallenberg's life, narrating with vigor and insight the story of a heroic life, and navigating with wisdom and sensitivity the truth about his disappearance and death.

His Name was Raoul Wallenberg

Author: Louise Borden
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780618507559
Category : YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Documents the inspirational, lesser-known work of a World War II humanitarian who helped save thousands of Jewish citizens in Budapest from Holocaust persecution, describing how he issued protective passports and offered shelter to Jewish refugees in Sweden.

Lost Hero

Author: Frederick E. Werbell
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Wallenberg's life was an enigma. His fate of one of the great unsolved mysteries of World War II. He was a handsome, aristocratic young diplomat from neutral Sweden who saved 30,000 Jews from the jaws of the Nazi death machine - only to disappear, at the war's end, into the silent hell of Soviet Prison.

Letters and Dispatches 1924-1944

Author: Raoul Wallenberg
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1628721766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
The best way to hear the story of Raoul Wallenberg is through his own words. Put together from three different collections, Letters and Dispatches is the most thorough book of Wallenberg’s writings and letters. With his disappearance behind the Iron Curtain in January of 1945, he became tragically mysterious. While the story of Wallenberg has been told many times over, the best way we can possibly understand and relate to him is through his written word, which Letters and Dispatches has in full.

Whatever Happened To Raoul Wallenberg?

Author: Morris H. Wolff
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781470193706
Category : Diplomats
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A fascinating true story of one man's effort to save Swedish diplomat -War Hero Raoul Wallenberg from the dungeons of the gulag where he was thrown after the KGB kidnapped him from Hungary on Jan 17, 1945. Author Morris Wolff sued the Soviets for Wallenberg's release and won a 39 million dollar verdict. Then Wolff went to Israel to enlist the Mossad in a rescue effort and in 1998 enlisted former US Ambassador to Moscow David M Evans. Evans, in the final pages of the book, goes to Kazan and amazingly finds Wallenberg alive in a hospital overlooking the Volga River. Read the details of this great rescue effort and the road blocks placed in Wolff's path by the governments of Sweden, Russia and the USA. Wolff wins the US Symphony Peace Award for his efforts at Carnegie Hall in New York in September of 1993 and then doubles his effort to rescue Wallenberg----a bloodhound selfless effort of 27 years with only certain members of the Wallenberg familiy helping him---while the majority of the family fight vociferously against Wolff's innocent and dedicated effort. The rich bankers in the family fight lawyer Wolff at every step of the way. They have much to hide as collaborators. They do not want Raoul free. This mystery-detective story---all true--will educate, inform and thrill you!

Wallenberg

Author: Kati Marton
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559702768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
A biography of Raoul Wallenberg, who defied Adolf Eichmann and saved 100,000 Jews, and then disappeared into the Soviet prison system.

Raoul Wallenberg

Author: Ingrid Carlberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857053299
Category : Diplomats
Languages : en
Pages : 639

Book Description
Raoul Wallenberg is one of the Second World War's greatest heroes. His courageous actions in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own. Though made an honorary citizen of Australia, the U.S.A. and elsewhere, Wallenberg's achievements remain little known. Ingrid Carlberg draws on revelatory research to narrate the story of his heroic life, and to navigate with wisdom and sensitivity the truth about his mysterious death.

Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest

Author: Paul Ansel Levine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780853037279
Category : Diplomats
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
diplomatic correspondence, this study provides a richer and more nuanced picture of this fascinating burgenerally misunderstood figure. Though not a biography, Wallenberg's up-bringing is explored, with the motives and goals for his mission analysed. This study replaces the one-dimensional caricature which has long dominated the public's view of Wallenberg with a more complicated individual who made history during the Holocaust." "Levine also explores how the many myths about Wallenberg and his mission have played a significant role in distorting both the public's understanding of him, and of how he actually worked to assist and save thousands of Jews. Rather than being an 'angel of rescue', as he is some times referred to, Wallenberg was a very real man whose status as a Swedish diplomat was more crucial to his ability to act than his own motivations. Often referred to as an archetypical 'altruisric personality', this study demonstrates that Wallenberg was hardly a --

Raoul Wallenberg

Author: Ingrid Carlberg
Publisher: MacLehose Press
ISBN: 1848665954
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 585

Book Description
An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own. A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, by trade a poultry importer, as Sweden's Special Envoy to Budapest in 1944. With remarkable bravery, Wallenberg created a system of protective passports, and sheltered thousands of desperate Jews in buildings he claimed were Swedish libraries and research institutes. As the war drew to a close, his invaluable work almost complete, Wallenberg voluntarily went to meet with the Soviet troops who were relieving the city. Arrested as a spy, Wallenberg disappeared into the depths of the Soviet system, never to be seen again. For this seminal biography, Ingrid Carlberg has carried out unprecedented research into all elements of Wallenberg's life, narrating with vigour and insight the story of a heroic life, and navigating with wisdom and sensitivity the truth about his disappearance and death. Translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg

Raoul Wallenberg

Author: Debra McArthur
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766025301
Category : Ambassadors
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Hungary, had one goal: to save as many Jews as possible from Nazi execution. Debra McArthur details the life of an extraordinary man who gave everything, including his life, in the service of humanity. In the face of overwhelming cruelty, he proved that one person can make a difference.