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A Tribute to Raoul Wallenberg

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Category: Celebration
Start date: 05 Jun 2012 12:00 AM
End date: 05 Jun 2012 01:30 PM
Street / Location: 5211 N. Clark St.
City / town: Chicago
Country: Illinois, USA
Organizer: Swedish American Museum
Name: Grace Pekar, gpekar@samac.org
Email: gpekar@samac.org
Phone: 773.728.8111
Homepage: http://swedishamericanmuseum.org/

Please join us in a tribute to Swedish diplomat and humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg, who save tens of thousands of Jews in Hungary during World War Two.

The tribute will take place on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at noon in Chicago’s Daley Plaza. There will be a flag-raising ceremony and greetings from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Governor Pat Quinn, Honorary Consul General Ulf Anvin, and the Executive Director of the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Rick Hirschhaut.

Summer songs will be sung by a Swedish Choir.

Sponsors: Consulate General of Sweden, Illinois Holocaust Museum, Swedish American Museum, North Park University, SWEA, SACC, Gothenburg Sister Cities Committee, Central Swedish Committee.