Did ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ inspire Raoul Wallenberg’s Holocaust heroism?
Wallenberg saw an anti-Nazi remake about the superhero with a double life. ‘Pimpernel’ also inspired Stan Lee and Larry David
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Culture How the horrors of WWII turned the righteous into heroes
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Fast Forward Hungary Printer Honored For Helping Raoul Wallenberg Rescue Jews
(JTA) — A Hungarian printer who helped Jews flee the Nazis during the Holocaust was honored with a plaque in Budapest. Emil Wiesmeyer’s printing company printed 4,000 blank passports to assist Swedish ambassador Raoul Wallenberg in saving Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps. He then printed another 20,000 to help more Hungarian Jews. Wiesmeyer’s…
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Breaking News Can Congress Solve the Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg’s Disappearance?
It’s been 72 years since Raul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who had saved the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, was last seen alive. In August, a KGB officer’s diaries were published, revealing that he was executed in 1947. And now, a group of lawmakers are asking Congress to launch another effort to…
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Breaking News Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish Holocaust Hero, Executed in Soviet Prison, Diaries Reveal
— Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi gas chambers, was executed in a Soviet prison, according to a KGB head’s diaries. The diaries of Ivan A. Serov, who ran the former Russian secret police and intelligence agency from 1954 to 1958, were discovered inside the walls of his second…
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Culture The Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
The Hero of Budapest: The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg By Bergt Jangfeldt Translated by Harry Watson I.B. Tauris, 352 pages, $35 Next year will mark the 70th anniversary of the disappearance in a Soviet prison of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish businessman who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews in the darkest days of the…
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Breaking News Barack Obama Will Visit Stockholm Synagogue During Trip to Sweden
President Barack Obama is slated to visit the Great Synagogue of Stockholm during his visit to Sweden. Obama, who will arrive in the Swedish capital Wednesday on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, is en route to the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, Svenska Dagbladet reported Thursday. The U.S. embassy in Stockholm confirmed that the…
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Breaking News Raoul Wallenberg Honored Down Under
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who helped save up to 100,000 Jews during the Holocaust, was honored in an Australian parliament. New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell marked the centenary since Wallenberg’s birth Wednesday by announcing an annual human rights award in Wallenberg’s name. “It is important the New South Wales Government pays tribute to a…
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