America and Sweden worked jointly on a project to rescue some of the Jews remaining in Nazioccupied Hungary. The mission had an extreme urgency. as the Nazis came to realize that defeat was imminent. they sought to inflict Hitlers grim "final solution" on all the Jews remaining under their control. The rescue mission was funded by the American War Refugee Board. but the story is of one man. Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg was the Swedish diplomat selected for this rescue mission. Through his tireless efforts. 20.000 Hungarian Jews were given Swedish passports. passports that literally meant the difference between life and death. But Wallenberg was no mere administrator. he involved himself at the risk of his own life. He stood on the top of a deportation train handing out Swedish papers to all the hands that could reach them. He then demanded that all those holding papers be allowed off the train. When the trains no longer ran. he pulled people with his own hands out of the "death marches" to the extermination camps in direct defiance of Nazi authority.
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