Raoul Wallenberg. a Swedish businessman volunteered to undertake this dangerous assignment. Wallenberg was sent to Hungary as the Secretary of the Swedish Legation. There he printed and issued thousands of Swedish passports. In Budapest he purchased houses and declared them property of the Swedish Embassy. Wallenberg daily risked his own life by defying Nazi troops as he marched along the Danube River where Hungarian Jews were lined up for deportation trains. He saved the Hungarians lives by giving them cards designating them as having diplomatic immunity. Congressman TOM LANTOS and his wife Annette were two of the people Wallenberg pulled out of the line.
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