In 1933, the famous American director Spielberg filmed the movie "Schindler's List", which caused a sensation around the world as soon as it was launched.
The film Schindler's List details the tragic experiences of Jews during World War II, and also depicts how an industrialist named Schindler single-handedly saved Jewish lives.
Since then, "Schindler" has become synonymous with people of different nationalities who saved Jewish lives.
Sweden during World War II also had a "Schindler" whose name was Wallenberg.
Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who used his special status to rescue more than 100,000 Jews during World War II and issued them passports of life.
The Germans occupied Hungary in March 1944, and like all occupied territories, the Jews became lambs to be slaughtered.
In July of that year, under the iron heel of the German Gestapo, about 400,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps, waiting for them only death.
Hungary's remaining 200,000 Jews, desperate, sought help from neutral embassies.
In July 1944, at the age of 23, Raoul. Wallenberg was appointed first secretary of the Swedish Legation in Budapest and was involved in and rescued hundreds of thousands of Jews.
Wallenberg, a prominent Swedish family, was extremely heroic, and he never feared the threat of the German Gestapo and did everything possible to issue life passports to Jews.
In order to rescue the Jews, Wallenberg maneuvered between the Germans and the Hungarians, employing the Jews to obtain diplomatic immunity and escape the Nazis.
Since then, Wallenberg has built about 30 rooms of the "Swedish House" in Budapest to provide refuge for Jews.
Wallenberg flew the Swedish flag at the "House of Sweden," and under his patronage, about fifteen thousand Jews were reborn.
In November 1944, as the Persecution of Hungarian Jews deepened, the German Nazis began organizing the terrible "Death March", working day and night to force Jews to walk to concentration camps.
The situation was so critical that Wallenberg followed suit, handing out life passports and providing food and medicine to Jews who had gone to concentration camps.
One day, when the German Nazis were transporting Jews by train to concentration camps, Wallenberg risked his life by getting into the carriage, standing on the tracks, and even climbing on the roof of the car and handing out his life passport to the millions of hands that stretched out of the carriage.
In 1945, when Wallenberg learned that the German Nazis were about to carry out a Holocaust of Jews in Budapest, he sent an anxious letter to Schmidt, commander of the German army in Hungary, warning him that he must take full responsibility for the Holocaust.
Schmidt, who received the letter, considered that Germany's defeat was decided and wanted to leave a way back for himself, so he did not carry out the Holocaust, and Wallenberg once again saved the lives of Hungarian Jews.
With the victory of World War II, the Soviet army marched into Hungary, and more than 97,000 Jews in the local area were out of danger, but Wallenberg was doomed in his life.
Because Wallenberg's rescue operation was supported by the United States, he was rightfully the target of the Soviet army's purges.
On January 13, 1945, when the advance troops of Soviet troops arrived in Budapest, Wallenberg was trapped on suspicion of being an American spy and supporter of Zionists.
On January 17 of the same year, the Soviet command extended an invitation to Wallenberg, who looked solemn and did not know whether he was a guest or a prisoner.
Isolated, Wallenberg had to go to a banquet, the last time people saw him in person.
Subsequently, Wallenberg disappeared, and no one knew where he had gone, whether it was life or death.
Since Wallenberg's disappearance, his family and relatives have never stopped rescuing him internationally.
The Swedish government constantly sent notes to the Soviet Union, hoping that they would release Wallenberg as soon as possible.
However, the Soviet Union repeatedly denied that Wallenberg had been imprisoned, and also claimed that Wallenberg was killed on the way to Debrecen, most likely by the German Nazis or the Gestapo.
Swedish officials and the Wallenberg family cast doubt on this claim, repeatedly demanding that the Soviet government release the truth.
In 1957, the Swedish government provided Soviet authorities with testimony from prisoners who had been detained with Wallenberg to prove that Wallenberg was indeed being held in Moscow.
The soviet government was forced to admit to the arrest and detention of Wallenberg, but on February 6 of that year, it was announced that Wallenberg had died of a "heart attack" in The Lubyanka prison in Moscow on July 17, 1947.
The Soviet government's claims were not endorsed by the Wallenberg family, who demanded to see people in life and corpses in death.
However, the Soviet government ignored this, and the outside world widely believed that they were lying.
Until the end of the 1980s, there were still rumors that Wallenberg was still alive.
In 1951, after the Italian diplomat De Moore was released from the Soviet Union, he told the outside world that Wallenberg was still imprisoned in Moscow. After The Polish Jew Kalinski moved to Israel, he also revealed that he had seen Wallenberg three times during his imprisonment in the Soviet Union.
These rumors reinforced the Swedish government and the Wallenberg family's conviction that the Soviet government was lying, and for decades they had been negotiating non-stop, but the Soviet government simply ignored them and only occasionally reiterated the 1957 statement.
Wallenberg's life and death are unknown, but his feat was admired by Jews around the world, who formed the Wallenberg Committee to commemorate the Swedish "Schindler" during World War II.
In 2000, the Swedish prime minister visited Russia and repeated the Wallenberg incident to President Putin, demanding that Russia investigate the truth as soon as possible and give justice to the Wallenberg family.
On November 28, 2000, The Chairman of the Russian Rehabilitation Commission, Yakovlev, issued a statement to the press confirming that Wallenberg was killed by the Soviet secret police in 1947 in the Lubyanka prison in Moscow ...
Since then, the mystery of Wallenberg's disappearance has had an imperfect ending, and Russia, while acknowledging that Wallenberg died at the hands of the Soviet government, has been silent about what Happened to Wallenberg during his detention, which has made the Wallenberg family doubt the veracity of the matter.
In 2001, the head of Soviet intelligence, Sudopathov, in his memoirs, Intelligence Agencies and the Kremlin, denounced how Wallenberg was trapped by the Soviet Ministry of Defense and imprisoned in Moscow with the aim of forcing him to act as a spy.
The stubborn Wallenberg naturally refused to obey, and what torture he suffered during his detention, although there is no written proof, but the cruelty can be imagined.
Less than two months after Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov gave instructions for Wallenberg's execution, Wallenberg died suddenly, and his body was immediately cremated without autopsy.
It is said that Wallenberg's body was not dissected because he died of poisoning.
Wallenberg, the hero who saved the lives of more than a hundred thousand Jews but could not save his own life, was tragic enough to break the world's tears.
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