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The Swede who saved the Jews but disappeared
Case Name: The Disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg
Case Description: Raoul Wallenberg was from a well-connected and upstanding Swedish family. He’d been a star student of architecture and became a successful businessman. Because of his family and business connections throughout Europe, he was recruited as a special envoy for a major rescue operation of Hungarian Jews in 1944. Between March and June of that year, the Nazis had deported about 400,000 Jews, most of them to the Auschwitz death camp. Wallenberg distributed documents to the Jews of Budapest and convinced Hungarian authorities to let the documentation (called a Schutz-Pass) function as passports. Those passports saved some 15,000 Jews from certain death. In January of 1945 Wallenberg was arrested for unknown reasons by Soviet troops, who later claimed he died of a heart attack in 1947, but no one knows for sure if he died then or what happened.
Case Type: Unsolved disappearance
I’ve been following this case for a while, since I’m a big fan of medieval and pre-war history.
I would be quite happy to be a moderator to this case and other historical cases prior to the 1950s
theguardian.com
'The mystery must be resolved': what befell Swede who saved Hungarian Jews?
Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died
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Hi @Brett – thanks for requesting this case. This actually prompted me to create a new category called Historical, where I added this and a few other cases to that section. Once you join this case, I will promote you to case organizer where you will have the ability to change case settings, moderate content, and promote future moderators of this specific case.
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Thank you Ryan! Looking forward to it and helping this amazing community grow!
Have a good night
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I love this idea!
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