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CAUSE OF DEATH CONCEDED. Of RAOUL WALLENBERG, Swedish diplomat imprisoned in Moscow in 1945; by Russian investigators. After saving at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps by issuing them Swedish passports, Wallenberg was arrested in Budapest by the Soviets. Russian officials had maintained that he died of a heart attack in Lubyanka prison in 1947. They now admit he probably was murdered...
...bodyguards and occasionally a third who scouts the road for gawkers. To relax, he listens to jazz, takes walks in the country and indulges in a daily cigar. But his consuming passion is his wife, Nane, a lawyer and accomplished painter and the niece of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II. "They've forged a real partnership," says their friend, author Kati Marton. "I never had the sense she was particularly ambitious for him. But she's immensely proud of what's happened...
Last year, Higginbotham served as an international mediator during the elections in South Africa and received the Spirit of Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award...
Hollywood may be able to celebrate only one hero, but we can do better. Wallenberg's legacy is too valuable to lose...
...Wallenberg's situation at this very moment. While we live in safety with the prospect of a comfortable life ahead of us, the world around us is filled with the evil; from Bosnia to the Sudan to Burma, millions still suffer...