Raoul Wallenberg

Author : Ingrid Carlberg
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681445243

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Raoul Wallenberg by Ingrid Carlberg Pdf

An honorary citizen of the United States and Canada, and designated as one of the Righteous Among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg was a modest envoy to Hungary whose heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless Jewish lives, and ultimately cost him his own. A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, by trade a poultry importer, as Sweden's Special Envoy to Budapest in 1944. With remarkable bravery, Wallenberg created a system of protective passports, and sheltered thousands of desperate Jews in buildings he claimed were Swedish libraries and research institutes. As the war drew to a close, his invaluable work almost complete, Wallenberg voluntarily went to meet with the Soviet troops who were relieving the city. Arrested as a spy, Wallenberg disappeared into the depths of the Soviet system, never to be seen again. In this definitive biography, noted journalist Ingrid Carlberg has carried out unprecedented research into all elements of Wallenberg's life, narrating with vigor and insight the story of a heroic life, and navigating with wisdom and sensitivity the truth about his disappearance and death.

Author : Louise Borden
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
ISBN : 0618507558

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His Name was Raoul Wallenberg by Louise Borden Pdf

Documents the inspirational, lesser-known work of a World War II humanitarian who helped save thousands of Jewish citizens in Budapest from Holocaust persecution, describing how he issued protective passports and offered shelter to Jewish refugees in Sweden.

Author : Raoul Wallenberg
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Diplomats
ISBN : 1559702753

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Letters and Dispatches, 1924-1944 by Raoul Wallenberg Pdf

Few figures in our century have been as revered as Raoul Wallenberg, who saved over 100,000 Jews from Nazi death camps. From the letters he wrote as a student in America, through to his last dispatches from Budapest, where he engaged in his historic mission, here, in his own words, is Raoul Wallenberg. 8-page photo insert.

Author : Harvey Rosenfeld
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595355440

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Raoul Wallenberg by Harvey Rosenfeld Pdf

The updated version of this authoritative biography of Wallenberg offers a "closing" to the greatest unsolved mystery of the Rosenfeld's "lucid evaluation of the evidence pro and con is the most sensible so far this is the book of choice for those who want the most complete account of Wallenberg's heroism and martyrdom."-Publishers Weekly

Author : Ingrid Carlberg
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848665958

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Raoul Wallenberg by Ingrid Carlberg Pdf

An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own. A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, by trade a poultry importer, as Sweden's Special Envoy to Budapest in 1944. With remarkable bravery, Wallenberg created a system of protective passports, and sheltered thousands of desperate Jews in buildings he claimed were Swedish libraries and research institutes. As the war drew to a close, his invaluable work almost complete, Wallenberg voluntarily went to meet with the Soviet troops who were relieving the city. Arrested as a spy, Wallenberg disappeared into the depths of the Soviet system, never to be seen again. For this seminal biography, Ingrid Carlberg has carried out unprecedented research into all elements of Wallenberg's life, narrating with vigour and insight the story of a heroic life, and navigating with wisdom and sensitivity the truth about his disappearance and death. Translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg

Author : Michael Nicholson,David Winner
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555328202

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Raoul Wallenberg by Michael Nicholson,David Winner Pdf

Traces the life of the diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during World War II and mysteriously disappeared after the Russians occupied Budapest.

Author : Frederick E. Werbell,Thurston Clarke
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015054059897

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Lost Hero by Frederick E. Werbell,Thurston Clarke Pdf

Wallenberg's life was an enigma. His fate of one of the great unsolved mysteries of World War II. He was a handsome, aristocratic young diplomat from neutral Sweden who saved 30,000 Jews from the jaws of the Nazi death machine - only to disappear, at the war's end, into the silent hell of Soviet Prison.

Author : Alan Gersten
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780738866024

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A Conspiracy of Indifference by Alan Gersten Pdf

Inside the National Archives in Washington are two large gray boxes holding 21 folders containing one damaging fact: For half a century, America abandoned Raoul Wallenberg, a hero of the Holocaust. These boxes and folders contain 1,500 documents from the Central Intelligence Agency--which reveal that, through its inaction and subversion, the U.S. government let Wallenberg languish in the camps of silence, known as the Gulag Archipelago. These documents, released in 1994, show that America, which sent Wallenberg on one of World War II´s most hazardous missions, betrayed this man who achieved the unachievable to rescue 100,000 Jews. A joint Swedish-Russian group--after more than nine years of study--released two reports on January 12, 2001. The Russian version said Wallenberg was killed in 1947, but the Swedish version raised many theories and came to no conclusions. A lot of this material was covered in the CIA files. During his years of imprisonment, many have tried and all have failed to free Wallenberg. His family made impassioned pleas to the highest levels of American government, only to be ignored five times. All attempts to free Wallenberg, perpetually bungled, included proposed spy swaps and a legal effort that initially won, but ultimately lost an unusual lawsuit against the Soviet Union. Through the prism of contemporary interviews along with the CIA documents as well as examination of 500 State Department documents in Washington and another 500 at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, as well as the Swedish and Russian reports, one sees new details and insights into a basic conflict. All the new information provides the backbone of a book, the first to specify American culpability in deserting Raoul Wallenberg.

Author : Sharon Linnea
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society of America
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015048530896

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Raoul Wallenberg by Sharon Linnea Pdf

Traces the life of the Swedish diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during World War II and then mysteriously disappeared after the Russians occupied Budapest.

Author : Kati Marton
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611453379

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Wallenberg by Kati Marton Pdf

A fearless young Swede whose efforts saved countless Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of Adolf Eichmann, Raoul Wallenberg was one of the true heroes to emerge during the Nazi occupation of Eu-rope. He left a life of privilege and, against staggering odds, brought hope to those who had been abandoned by the rest of the world. Here is the gripping, passionately written biography of the courageous man who displayed extraordinary humanity during one of history's darkest periods.

Author : Bengt Jangfeldt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857723321

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The Hero of Budapest by Bengt Jangfeldt Pdf

The story of Raoul Wallenberg - the Swedish businessman who, at immense personal risk, rescued many of Budapest's Jews from the Holocaust and subsequently disappeared into the Soviet prison system - is one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II. Yet the complete story of his life and fate can only be told now - and for the first time in this book - following access to the Russian and Swedish archival sources, previously not used. Born into a wealthy Swedish family, Wallenberg was a moderately successful businessman when he was recruited by the War Refugee Board to manage the rescue mission of thousands of Hungarian Jews. Once in Budapest, he created and distributed so called 'protective passports' (or Schutz-Pass) among the Jewish population, thus managing to save up to 8,000 people. Through the 'safe houses' and clandestine networks that he established around the city, many thousands more were saved from the concentration camps. Yet, when Budapest was liberated by the Red Army in January 1945, Wallenberg was arrested and taken to Moscow. One of the reasons for his arrest was that the Soviets could not understand the nature of his mission: formally he was a Swedish diplomat but he worked for an American agency. On the basis of previously unseen Soviet sources, Jangfeldt has been able to reconstruct the events surrounding Wallenberg's arrest almost hour by hour and, for the first time, he presents a highly plausible theory about the reasons why Wallenberg was arrested and what happened to him after he disappeared. With access to previously unpublished material, Bengt Jangfeldt provides the first complete account of Wallenberg's life - from his childhood in Sweden to his disappearance in a Russian jail - and sheds important new light on one of the greatest heroes of World War II. This is a thrilling tale of intrigue, espionage and heroism which will captivate all readers of modern European history.

Author : Morris H. Wolff
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Diplomats
ISBN : 1470193701

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Whatever Happened To Raoul Wallenberg? by Morris H. Wolff Pdf

A fascinating true story of one man's effort to save Swedish diplomat -War Hero Raoul Wallenberg from the dungeons of the gulag where he was thrown after the KGB kidnapped him from Hungary on Jan 17, 1945. Author Morris Wolff sued the Soviets for Wallenberg's release and won a 39 million dollar verdict. Then Wolff went to Israel to enlist the Mossad in a rescue effort and in 1998 enlisted former US Ambassador to Moscow David M Evans. Evans, in the final pages of the book, goes to Kazan and amazingly finds Wallenberg alive in a hospital overlooking the Volga River. Read the details of this great rescue effort and the road blocks placed in Wolff's path by the governments of Sweden, Russia and the USA. Wolff wins the US Symphony Peace Award for his efforts at Carnegie Hall in New York in September of 1993 and then doubles his effort to rescue Wallenberg----a bloodhound selfless effort of 27 years with only certain members of the Wallenberg familiy helping him---while the majority of the family fight vociferously against Wolff's innocent and dedicated effort. The rich bankers in the family fight lawyer Wolff at every step of the way. They have much to hide as collaborators. They do not want Raoul free. This mystery-detective story---all true--will educate, inform and thrill you!

Author : Per Anger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89081141459

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With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest by Per Anger Pdf

Author : Tom Streissguth,Emma Simon
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499462432

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Raoul Wallenberg by Tom Streissguth,Emma Simon Pdf

In 1935, Swede Raoul Wallenberg graduated from the University of Michigan. He returned to Sweden, but soon World War II erupted. Sweden remained neutral during the war, which enabled Wallenberg to travel as a salesman throughout Europe. Because of his brilliant command of languages and Swedish citizenship, Wallenberg was chosen to work for the U.S. War Refugee Board in Hungary. His mission was to rescue Jews in Budapest from the Nazis and their monstrous death camps. This volume’s gripping narrative transports readers to the turbulent last days of the war, when Wallenberg’s heroic actions helped to save thousands of Jews.

Author : Debra McArthur
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ambassadors
ISBN : 0766025306

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Raoul Wallenberg by Debra McArthur Pdf

In the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Hungary, had one goal: to save as many Jews as possible from Nazi execution. Debra McArthur details the life of an extraordinary man who gave everything, including his life, in the service of humanity. In the face of overwhelming cruelty, he proved that one person can make a difference.