Wallenberg began to pursue the family banking and commerce interests. Working at a bank in Haifa. Israel. Raoul Wallenberg met Jews who had fled the terror and inhumanity of Nazi Germany. His perception of the Nazi horror was strengthened iii 1944 when he was sent to Budapest to promote his familys business in exports. -.He soon learned that death was big business and that people. not goods. were being exported. That same year. Mr. Willenberg came to the attention of the U.S. War Refugee Board. Recognizing in him a rare combination of pragmatic businessman and moral idealist. the Board approached Mr. Wallenberg with a request.