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...Schindler shows us what a person can do when faced with an extraordinary circumstance, Wallenberg shows us how a person can seek out those circumstances...
...Allied troops neared the city, Wallenberg engaged in a frantic race against time. He bribed, badgered and threatened the soldiers and officers charged with carrying out Eichmann's order. He drove to train depots and pulled Jews off trains headed for the death camps, putting himself more than once in imminent danger...
...efforts seemed about to come to naught when the departing Eichmann ordered the Budapest ghetto sealed and every Jew inside killed. As the tanks and machine guns encircled the neighborhood, Wallenberg charged into Nazi headquarters and assured every officer there that he would personally see then hanged for war crimes when the Allies took the city...
Soviet troops entered the city a few days later, and Wallenberg immediately went to them with plans for the reconstruction of the city and the rejuvenation of its people. Wallenberg was never seen again...
...Wallenberg saved over 50,000 Jews during his time in Hungary. His name, like that of Oscar Schindler, is on the Avenue of the Righteous in Jerusalem...