Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg {{Audio|sv-Raoul_Wallenberg.ogg|listen}} (born August 4, 1912, in Stockholm, Sweden – date of death uncertain) was a Swedish diplomat and a member of the influential Swedish Wallenberg family. He had earned his bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Michigan in 1935. As a Legation Counsellor in Budapest, he used his diplomatic status to save many Hungarian Jews during the later stages of World War II.

See also

• Henryk Slawik, Polish diplomat doing the same earlier in Budapest.
• List of people who resisted the Holocaust