Raoul Wallenberg Essay

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Raoul Wallenburg may be a name you've never heard. But any good historian would tell you that he incredibly influenced the amount of Jews surviving the holocaust which of course in term affected the religion all together. "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("Raoul Wallenberg - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.Com")." Raoul Wallenburg born in 1914 Stockholm Sweden no one expected such a person to cause such a huge impact on the religion, if not the world. Raoul was never married and never had children and never had intentions to.

Raoul served his required 9 months of military service straight out of high school then spent a year in places near Paris discovering what he wanted to do. After his time in Paris went on to study at the University of Michigan to study architecture and got top of his class." Wallenberg completed nine months of mandatory Swedish military service then spent a year in Paris. He went on to study architecture at the University of Michigan, where he was a top student."("Raoul Wallenberg - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.Com")

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Years later in 1947 soviets finally admitted to taking him but said that he died in a Moscow prison. Claims that he never died but was being interrogated by Russians but no real reason of death is known. Since those times Wallenberg has had more than 20 monuments erected in his honor all around the world. Not only monuments but works of arts such as paintings and buildings such as the Raoul Wallenberg Institution. Overall he produced thousands of fake passports, and with that hundreds of thousands of lives. "Around the world there are monuments, statues, and other works of art that honor Wallenberg.("Raoul

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