Speaker. I rise today to pay tribute to an unrelenting humanitarian. Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg risked his own life time and time again in order to rescue Hungarian Jews from Nazi slaughter in the closing months of World War II. It is this selfless. heroic spirit which we honor today. Mr. Wallenberg. a native of Sweden. arrived in Budapest in 1944 at the request of the American War Refugee Board. His diplomatic status enabled him to rescue tens of thousands of Jews bound for Nazi extermination camps by issuing Swedish protective passports. When Soviet forces entered Budapest in January of 1945.