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Berit Wallenberg - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

On July 9, 1944, Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg arrived at the Swedish Embassy in Nazi-occupied Budapest on a mission to save Jewish lives. But even before his arrival, the staff at the Swedish Embassy–including career diplomat Per Anger–had begun to protect Jews. Anger, honored as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1982 for his work as a rescuer, shared his testimony with us in Stockholm in 1996. When Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Anger, who had been in Budapest worki