It also requests that the Department of State take all possible action to obtain information concerning his present status and assure his release. Last October at one of the International Organizations subcommittee hearings on the phenomenon of disappearances as a violat on of human rights. I discussed the issue of Raoul Wallenberg. He was a Swedish diplomat who went to Budapest in 1944 with the hope of helping Hungarys 700.0.0 Jews that were being deported by the Nazis to extermination camps. He is credited with having saved close to 100.000 lives. His disappearance in January 1945 after the Russians had captured Budapest is one of the odest cases of the phenomenon of disappearances.
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