To Save a People

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Everyone has heard of Oscar Schindler and his humanitarian work during the war saving the lives of Jews. Not so well known is Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat based in Budapest. Wallenberg saved the lives of over 100,000 Hungarian Jews by issuing them with Swedish passports, at times placing himself in extreme danger, and continually trying to outwit Adolf Eichmann and the Nazi hierarchy.
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