Its passage will increase the international pressure needed to have the Soviets reopen the Wallenberg case. As an honorary American citizen. Raoul Wallenberg will receive the attention he deserves from our Government. As most of my colleagues know. Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat assigned to the Swedish Legation in Budapest. Hungary. at the request of the American Government. His work was secretly funded by the War Refugee Board. He was responsible for saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews between July 1944 and January 1945. On January 17. 1945. he was arrested by Soviet authorities and imprisoned.