Raoul Wallenberg: The Hero Of Jews

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The Hero of Jews A crowd of Jews are being forced on a Train to go to a concentration camp and they are panic-stricken, but as soon as they're about to lose hope of any rescue, a man approaches and swiftly hands out passports to the Jews to escape. Who was the gallant hero who had freed the now beholden Jews? Raoul Wallenberg was just an ordinary, ambitious man who became a hero to Budapest Jews. He was a Sweden who wanted to help when he heard what was happening to the Jews in the time of World War II. Wallenberg found a way to aid them by handing out passports to the Jews so they could escape the Nazis and the concentration camps. His early life influenced him to be the commendable person he came to be.
Raoul Wallenberg was born on August the fourth in the year 1912. Shortly after his birth, his father, Raoul Wallenberg senior, died of cancer. “His father was a naval officer and a member of a prominent Swedish family” (Saari, 499). Even though he never got to …show more content…
ambassador to Sweden, approved the selection of Wallenberg for the mission to Budapest”(Streissguth, 37). Wallenberg had a concocted plan to make passports with other people that volunteered to go and go to Budapest and start handing out passports to Sweden to as many Jews as achievable. But first, before he could start his devised plan, he had to forge relationships and some of them had to be with the Nazis. “ In order to achieve ends, he had to at once befriend them, cajole them, and remind them that, at war’s end, they would be treated as criminals rather than combatants on the losing side of the conflict”( History.com Staff, “Raoul Wallenberg”). When Wallenberg was in Budapest, he then commenced to throw an agglomeration of passports to Jews. The Nazis were ordered to shoot Wallenberg but because he built relationships with them, they deliberately missed the lethal shot. The next challenge for Wallenberg was where he was going to house the refugee
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