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2. And Let's Not Forget Swedish Diplomat

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Thu Jan 4, 2018, 01:48 PM

Jan 2018

Raoul Wallenberg and his rescue of the Jews of Budapest.

“some estimates are as high as 100,000–of Hungarian Jews from extermination by the Nazis”

http://www.history.com/topics/wallenberg-raoul

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