Raoul Wallenberg

A Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. Towards the end of World War II, working as a diplomat at the Swedish legation in Budapest, Hungary, he is credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from persecution by Nazi Germany and the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party. He conducted rescue operations by boldly leveraging his diplomatic status—issuing protective Swedish passports in large quantities and establishing buildings flying the Swedish flag as protected shelters. On January 17, 1945, during the occupation of Budapest by Soviet forces, he was detained by the Soviet counter-intelligence agency SMERSH and subsequently disappeared. Soviet authorities later claimed he died in prison in 1947, but many aspects surrounding his death remain unknown to this day.

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Year	Raoul Wallenberg
1912	Birth of Raoul Wallenberg (Period: August 4, 1912, Location: Lidingö (Sweden)) Birth in Lidingö (Period: August 4, 1912, Location: Lidingö, Sweden)
1931	Studies in Architecture and Trade at the University of Michigan (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1931–1935, Location: Ann Arbor, United States)
1935	Commercial Activities in South Africa (Age: 22 years old, Period: Around 1935–1936, Location: Republic of South Africa)
1936	Business Operations in Central Europe (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1936–1944, Location: Sweden, Hungary, etc.)
1939	World War II (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: UK, France, North Africa, Mediterranean, Atlantic, etc.)
1944	Establishment of Swedish Safehouses (Age: 31 years old, Period: Summer 1944 – January 1945, Location: Budapest, Hungary) Expansion of Jewish Rescue Activities (Age: 31 years old, Period: Summer – Winter 1944, Location: Budapest, Hungary) German Occupation of Hungary (Age: 31 years old, Period: March 19, 1944, Location: Hungary including Budapest) Participation in the Rescue Plan by the US War Refugee Board (Age: 31 years old, Period: June – July 1944, Location: Stockholm, Sweden) Rescue of Jews via Protective Passports (Age: 31 years old, Period: July 1944 – January 1945, Location: Budapest, Hungary) Appointment as First Secretary of the Swedish Legation (Raoul Wallenberg, Age: 31 years old, Period: July – December 1944, Location: Budapest, Hungary) Wallenberg's Mission to Budapest (Age: 31 years old, Period: July 9, 1944, Location: Budapest, Hungary) Rescue Operations in the Budapest Jewish Ghetto (Age: 32 years old, Period: December 1944 – January 1945, Location: Budapest, Hungary) Rescue Operations during the Siege of Budapest (Age: 32 years old, Period: December 1944 – January 1945, Location: Budapest, Hungary)
1945	Imprisonment in Lubyanka Prison (Age: 32 years old, Period: January 1945 – around 1947, Location: Moscow, USSR) Posthumous Recognition for Humanitarian Efforts (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1945 onwards, Location: Sweden, Hungary, Israel, United States, etc.) Contact with Soviet Forces and Disappearance (Age: 32 years old, Period: January 13–17, 1945, Location: From Budapest, Hungary toward Debrecen) Detention of Wallenberg by Soviet Forces (Age: 32 years old, Period: January 17, 1945, Location: Budapest, Hungary)
1947	Death of Raoul Wallenberg (Age: 34 years old, Period: After January 17, 1945 (The exact time and cause of death remain unconfirmed. Soviet authorities claimed he died of a heart attack at Lubyanka Prison on July 17, 1947))
1957	Announcement of Death by Soviet Authorities (Age: 9 years after death, Period: February 6, 1957, Location: Moscow, USSR)
2016	Declaration of Death by Sweden (Age: 69 years after death, Period: October 31, 2016, Location: Sweden)
Unknown	Marriage (Raoul Wallenberg, None, Period: Not Married, Location: Not Applicable)

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British Politics	David Lloyd George Winston Churchill Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain Clement Attlee Anthony Eden Edward Wood Ernest Bevin
French Politics	Georges Clemenceau Charles de Gaulle Paul Reynaud Édouard Daladier Léon Blum Philippe Pétain Maxime Weygand Maurice Gamelin
Jewish relief	Anne Frank Etty Hillesum Edith Stein Raoul Wallenberg Aristides de Sousa Mendes Varian Fry Nicholas Winton Chiune Sugihara
Nuclear Science	Lise Meitner James Chadwick John Cockcroft Ernest Walton Patrick Blackett Mark Oliphant Otto Hahn Otto Robert Frisch

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