“The Swedish government also initiated an operation to rescue Hungarian Jewry. In 1944 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was sent to Budapest to save Jews on their way to deportation. He and his staff, along with the Swedish Red Cross, rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews.”
Count Bernadotte Folke, Deputy President of the Swedish Red Cross (on the right), inspecting the transfer of survivors from camp Ravensbrueck to Sweden, April 1945
“The Swedish government also initiated an operation to rescue Hungarian Jewry. In 1944 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was sent to Budapest to save Jews on their way to deportation. He and his staff, along with the Swedish Red Cross, rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews.”
Count Bernadotte Folke, Deputy President of the Swedish Red Cross (on the right), inspecting the transfer of survivors from camp Ravensbrueck to Sweden, April 1945