75th anniversary: Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg
History · Anniversaries · Fri, January 17, 2020
1945: Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who had saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, was taken into Soviet custody during the Siege of Budapest and was never seen in public again.
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