Raoul Wallenberg went to Hungary in 1944 to organize the rescue mission to save Jews and others marked for extermination as part of Hitlers "Final Solution." Wallenberg risked his life so that others might live. With funds provided by the U.S. War Refugee Board. Wallenberg established himself in Budapest where he distributed Swedish passports to thousands of Jews. He purchased and rented scores of houses in Budapest. equipped them with Swedish flags and declared them Swedish Embassy property. and personally protected the refugees he gathered within these safe houses. He followed the death marches and went daily to the deportation trains where he literally pulled people out of the clutches of the Nazis. Altogether. he saved tens of thousands from deportation to the death camps or violent deaths in the ghetto of Budapest. In January 1945. Raoul Wallenberg was seized by Russian authorities in direct violation of his diplomatic immunity.
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