ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, in 1944, President Roosevelt created
the War Refugee Board in order to undertake efforts to rescue Jews from
the Nazis and the atrocities of the Holocaust. That same year, a young Swedish diplomat accepted an appointment to
travel to Hungary on a humanitarian mission, in large part sponsored by
our War Refugee Board, to help protect Hungary's Jewish community. This
young diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, risked his life to save tens of
thousands of Jews, if not more, from almost certain death in Nazi
concentration camps. For his remarkable courage and humanitarian spirit, Wallenberg had
been recognized and memorialized across the globe.