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Raoul Wallenberg

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on April 14, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 29, 2022, 11:05 am
Lapid to rabbi who said he’s worse than Nazi: My grandfather was killed in Holocaust
FM notes his father also faced death in Budapest Ghetto; Gantz says ultra-Orthodox Haredi cleric Mazuz’s remarks border on Holocaust denial; PM: ‘Must guard our tongues from evil’
By ToI Staff
Agnes Keleti, former Olympic gold medal winning gymnast, reacts to fireworks going off on her birthday cake in Budapest, Hungary, Jan. 4, 2021 (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)
January 9, 2021, 2:18 pm
Oldest living Olympic champion, a Holocaust survivor, turns 100
Budapest resident Agnes Keleti, a winner of the Israel Prize, took home 10 medals in gymnastics – including 5 golds – at the 1952 Helsinki and 1956 Melbourne Games
By Justin Spike
A security guard stands at attention after lowering the Swedish flag to half-staff on the roof of the Swedish parliament the Riksdag, in Stockholm, Sweden, January 1 2005. (AP Photo/Pressens Bild, Jack Mikrut)
November 9, 2020, 11:33 am
Sweden grapples with ‘guilty conscience’ over ignored Holocaust tip-off
On a train in 1942, an SS officer told a Swedish diplomat of the industrialized murder of Jews at the Belzec extermination camp. But the horrifying revelation was kept under wraps
By Johannes LEDEL
A memorial for victims of the Holocaust outside of Stockholm’s Great Synagogue, January 27, 2019. (Michael Campanella/Getty Images via JTA)
September 30, 2020, 10:22 am
Sweden allocates $1.1 million to start work on its first Holocaust museum
Scandinavian nation plans museum with focus on survivors and a center devoted to Raoul Wallenberg, a diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in WWII
By Josefin Dolsten
Arie Even, the first casualty of COVID-19 in Israel. (courtesy)
April 17, 2020, 2:25 pm
Israel’s 1st virus death: Hid in hay bale after saved by Wallenberg in Holocaust
When Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, Arie Even, his mother and brother had to go into hiding for nearly a year, at times in bales of hay and in underground cellars
By Aron Heller
Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)
September 23, 2019, 1:39 pm
Raoul Wallenberg’s family demands Sweden press Russia for news of his fate
Stockholm has long resisted pressure to confront Moscow over the diplomat, who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A monument commemorating Raoul Wallenberg in Tel Aviv. (CC BY 2.5 Avishai Teicher/Wikipedia)
August 4, 2019, 4:44 pm
Raoul Wallenberg — remembering a hero on his 107th birthday
To save tens of thousands of Jews, Swedish diplomat bribed, cajoled, persuaded and even threatened German and Hungarian officials; what happened to him remains unclear
By Eduardo Eurnekian and Baruch Tenembaum
Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)
February 21, 2018, 8:23 am
Moscow court denies appeal by Raoul Wallenberg’s family to see his files
Judges uphold decision against opening records of ‘Swedish Schindler,’ keeping his fate under the Soviet Union shrouded in doubt
By AFP
President Reuven Rivlin (L) presents French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour the Raoul Wallenberg medal on October 26, 2017, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)
October 28, 2017, 4:06 pm
Legendary singer Aznavour given award for family efforts to save Jews in WWII
French-Armenian receives honor from President Rivlin, speaks of the historical suffering endured by the both the Jewish people and the Armenians
By AFP
Director of the Holocaust Memorial Center Szabolcs Szita lays a wreath at a memorial plaque dedicated to the late director of the one-time Antiqua Printing House Emil Wiesmeyer who helped to save the lives of thousands of Jewish Hungarians during WWII, October 18, 2017. (Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP)
October 19, 2017, 3:39 am
Hungarian who helped Jews flee Holocaust honored in Budapest
Emil Wiesmeyer’s printing company made fake passports as part of efforts by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to save Jews from Nazi death camps
By AP
Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)
September 18, 2017, 9:00 pm
Russia court rejects family bid for Wallenberg files
Documents that may cast light on fate of vanished Swedish diplomat in notorious Moscow jail will not be declassified until 2022
By Anna MALPAS
Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)
July 27, 2017, 5:44 pm
Raoul Wallenberg’s family sues Russia’s security service
Relatives want FSB to open KGB archives over Swedish diplomat’s disappearance in 1945 after saving tens of thousands of Jews
By AFP
Raoul Wallenberg, right, with Jews in the Swedish Embassy in Budapest, exact date uncertain (Courtesy Yad Vashem)
May 28, 2017, 12:14 pm
Chance find reveals only known footage of Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg
Sharp-eyed researcher recognizes famous Swede, who saved tens of thousands of Jews, in anonymous archive film broadcast on Swedish TV
By Stuart Winer
Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)
April 2, 2017, 8:29 pm
Wallenberg-signed document fetches over $13,000 at auction
Auctioned affidavit from 1944 exempted a Hungarian Jewish woman from having to wear a yellow Jewish star
By JTA
Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)
March 28, 2017, 10:36 am
Passport Wallenberg used to save Jews in WWII to be auctioned
Bidding at LA auction house to start at $8,000 for fake permit issued by Swedish Embassy in Budapest in September 1944
By Sue Surkes
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