Wallenberg: Lost Hero Foreword by U. S. Congressman Tom Lantos Who Was Rescued from the Nazis by Raoul Wallenberg; Introduction by Peter Benenson, Founder of Amnesty International

Springfield, IL: Templegate Publishers. Near Fine. 1986. First Edition (?). Paperback. 087243155X . Softcover is heavy, glazed paper. Pages are clean, tight and crisp; this is a NEW book. Raoul Wallenberg is a fascinating person, a lost soul who came from a wealthy and powerful Swedish banking family, but had no real goals or direction in his life. Then, he found how much ONE person could make a difference. UNTIL, during World War II, when he was sent to the Swedish embassy in Budapest, Hungary, he became aware of the deliberate attempt by the Nazis and Hungarian Nazi sympathizers, to deport and/or kill all the Jews in the country. Budapest had been a main center of Jewish culture for centuries, whoever was the ruling force in the country. At first confined to a ghetto, then the beginnings of systematic deportations were begun. Wallenberg found his lifelong purpose--to stop this atrocity. At first he attained real Swedish passports for many Jews, but couldn't get them at anywhere near the speed the Nazis were decimating the population. So, with the help of many, most of them Jews confined in the newly created ghetto, he started making his own 'Swedish' passports. The man literally would stop trains, trucks, any form of transportation, and pull people off of them, handing them their true Swedish passports as he did so. He was unafraid to bribe any corrupt official to attain his goal. Numerous attempts were made to assissinate him during his activities; none succeeded. He finally disappeared at the end of the war, when the Russians took him into questionable custody, which has still never been fully explained to this day. Only three people have been granted honorary US citizenship; Mr. Wallenberg is one, and to date, the last, to be given this singular honor. In Israel he is comemorated as one of the 'Righteous Gentiles'. ; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; 192 pages; Cover has very minor rubbing and bumping. .