Raoul Wallenberg: A tale of great courage

Raoul Wallenberg was born on 4 August 1912 in Kapptsa, near Stockholm, Sweden. In 1935 he completed B.A. in architecture, and went to Palestine where he worked for a Jewish banker from Holland. There he met many Jewish refugees who were streaming into Palestine. In 1941, his uncle set him up with Kalman Lauer, a Hungarian who ran an export-import firm trading between Stockholm and Europe, and was technically attached to the Swedish embassy in Budapest, where he established an office and 'hired' 400 Jewish volunteers to run it. He invented a special Swedish passport, the Schultz-Pass, which is credited with saving 20,000 Jewish lives.