Raoul Wallenberg lives

A life for humanity and saving countless Jews living in Hungary: that is Raoul Wallenberg. With his tireless commitment and the idea of providing people with „protection passes“, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was able to save 100,000 people in Budapest from 1944-1945, primarily of Jewish faith, from certain death at the hands of the National Socialists.

After Budapest was taken by the Soviet Army, the Soviets arrested Raoul Wallenberg on 17 January 1945 and deported him to Moscow. All traces of him have since been lost to this day. Of course it is highly unlikely that Raoul Wallenberg could still be alive today. But nobody can know that he has died as long as there is no reliable proof of his fate.

The Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit, which was founded and led by Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt, had a searching service that looked for political prisoners who had not been declared missing. The Kampfgruppe, or task force, operated beyond Germany’s borders. So the parents of Raoul Wallenberg, Fredrik and May von Dardel, decided to ask Dr. Hildebrandt for help.

After the death of their parents Raoul Wallenberg’s siblings, Nina and Guy, continued to search for him. Raoul’s brother Guy von Dardel led the intensive search with assistance from friends and supporters, among them Albert Einstein and Andrei Sakharov. National leaders from the world’s most powerful countries pleaded with the Soviet government to shed light on Raoul Wallenberg’s fate.