It is appropriate that we take the time today. and on October 5. to recognize the heroic achievements of Raoul Wallenberg. to remember the brutality against which he fought. and to urge that we all renew our efforts to secure his freedom. Raoul Wallenberg. in fighting against the horror of the Holocaust. became one of the true heroes of the modern era. In 1944. at the request of the U.S. War Refugee Board. Sweden sent a representative to Hungary to coordinate rescue operations for the Hungarian Jewish community. which was marked for liquidation by the Nazis. That representative was Raoul Wallenberg.