Was Raoul Wallenberg required to act against the discrimination towards the Jews or was he pushed by his own thoughts to do something about it? Constantly, Wallenberg would be exposed to many Jews facing the catastrophic event of the Holocaust. Raoul Wallenberg, Holocaust resister, along with Samuel Willenberg, strongly believed in the freedom of Jews.\ On August 4, 1912 in Lingo Municipality, Sweden he was born. Raoul was named after his father, who died of cancer three months before he was born (McArthur 12). For generations, his family belonged to the prestigious Wallenberg clan. It produced leaders in business and politics. Unluckily, his interests were architecture and trade (Hurvitz). He had a talent for drawing and was fascinated…show more content… Nazis seized him and took control of Hungary, which put the Jews in danger once again. As Wallenberg tried to continue with his operation, the Nazis rule made things much more difficult. Raoul built Swedish safe houses for about 15,000 Jews and tried convincing other neutral representatives in Hungary to start issuing protective passes for the Jews. The Nazis accelerated the war against the Jews as the Nazis feared imminent defeat. When the Nazis began Death marches, Wallenberg offered food to the starving Jews and pulled out the ones who had passes out of the…show more content… It is where he succeeded in getting many Jews to safe houses. Wallenberg did not work by himself but he had the Red-cross and a man named Civil Lutz helping him (McArthur 42). Despite Wallenberg’s efforts and the establishment of the international ghetto, the danger for the Budapest Jews was still running (McArthur 44). He received a check from Iver Olsen of the war Refugee Board that had a value of $100.000 in order to support the Jews. Not only did Wallenberg save the Jews, but he gave aid to the ones he could and supplied them with food also. Wallenberg was in a contest where Adolf Eichman was a threatening opponent, because they both wanted to win; he struggled forthe Jews of Hungary and would not let Eichman send Jews to their deaths (McArthur 22). Samuel Willenberg, a prisoner and survivor in Treblinka, a Nazi death-camp in Opatów, Poland was brought to die at the young age of nineteen. Willenberg lied to the Nazis by telling them he was a brick mason (Byers 7). He came up with a plan to escape that same day, August 2, 1943. Willenberg was one of the fortunate ones who made it through the war. About half did not reach the fence. Out of those who did, only about three hundred were hunted down and only forty were alive at the end of the war. It was an outcome of only forty out of eight-hundred Jews (Byers
