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Annual Raoul Wallenberg Dinner

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Category: Education
Start date: 07 Jun 2018 05:30 PM
End date: 07 Jun 2018 08:00 PM
Street / Location: 2655 NW Market Street
City / town: Seattle
Country: Washington, USA
Organizer: Nordic Museum
Phone: 206.789.5707
Homepage: http://nordicmuseum.org/wallenberg

The 23rd Annual Raoul Wallenberg Dinner honors the memory of the Swedish diplomat who intervened to save thousands of Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps.

Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect and businessman who served as Sweden's special envoy in Nazi-occupied Budapest from July to December, 1944. During that time, Wallenberg issued protective passports to Jewish persons and sheltered Jews in Swedish-territory buildings, saving tens of thousands of people from deportation to concentration camps. Wallenberg was detained by the Soviet Army in 1944, and reportedly died in a communist prison in 1947.
Today, he is celebrated by countries worldwide for his courageous humanitarian efforts.

$60-$70