Raoul Wallenberg

‘I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.’ He was a Swedish diplomat who worked in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II. Together with fellow diplomat Per Anger, he issued ‘protective passports’ that helped rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Between July and December 1944, he issued ‘passports’ and housed Jews in buildings established as Swedish territory, saving tens of thousands of lives. On January 17, 1945, he was called into detention by the Soviets after they entered Budapest, and was reported to have died on July 7, 1947 while in their care. The circumstances of his death have long been in question.