This resolution. approved overwhelmingly in both the House and Senate. expressed the sense of Congress that the President should convey to the Soviet Government the deep concern of Congress and the American people for the fate of Raoul Wallenberg. Raoul Wallenberg saved as many as 100.000 Hungarian Jews by extending Swedish citizenship and protection to these victims of Nazi persecution. Daily. this incomparable humanitarian showed impressive bravery and ingenuity as he faced Nazi soldiers and death squads to save thousands of prisoners. people who were unrelated to him by birth or ethnic group or citizenship or religion. He followed the death marches and went to the deportation trains in Hungary. There he literally pulled people out of the clutches of the Nazis. consistently endangering his own life. In 1945. when the Russian Army occupied Budapest. they arrested Wallenberg.
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