Raoul Wallenberg Day

(Stockholm, Sweden) Today is Raoul Wallenberg Day, a tribute to one of history's greatest heroes.

Sweden celebrated its first official Raoul Wallenberg Day on Tuesday to honour the famed Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, an event hailed as "important" by one of his descendants.[…]

Wallenberg is credited with saving 100,000 of Jews while he was stationed in Hungary during World War II. He was last seen in Budapest on January 17, 1945, when Soviet forces took the city from German troops. Soviet records state he died in a Moscow prison in 1947.

Wallenberg's remains have not been found.