Genealogy Projects tagged with Wallenberg Swedish Protected Houses on the Geni Family Tree

Raoul Wallenberg's Swedish Passport & Safe House Survivors

Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian who rescued tens of thousands Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust. It is estimated that under Wallenberg’s leadership he and his associates distributed Swedish passports to 20,000 of Budapest’s Jews and protected 13,000 more in safe houses that he rented and which flew the Swedish flag. Wallenberg ev...