Letters and Dispatches 1924-1944
The Man Who Saved Over 100,000 Jews, Centennial Edition
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Publisher Description
The best way to hear the story of Raoul Wallenberg is through his own words. Put together from three different collections, Letters and Dispatches is the most thorough book of Wallenberg’s writings and letters. With his disappearance behind the Iron Curtain in January of 1945, he became tragically mysterious. While the story of Wallenberg has been told many times over, the best way we can possibly understand and relate to him is through his written word, which Letters and Dispatches has in full.
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During WWII, Wallenberg, a young Swedish businessman, devoted his organizational skills and negotiating talents to rescuing some 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Germans. He was a trade representative in Budapest when, in 1944, he was recruited by the War Refugee Board and, as he writes, began to ``save lives that the rest of the world had given up for lost.'' When the Soviet Army liberated Budapest in 1945, Wallenberg was unaccountably arrested and sent to Moscow's Lyubyanka Prison; his subsequent fate remains a mystery. This welcome collection of his letters and diplomatic reports consists largely of correspondence with his beloved grandfather, Gustave Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat whose influence on Raoul was profound. Raoul Wallenberg's letters reveal his decency, independence and adventurousness. Although the editor of the collection receives no credit line on the title page, the book was edited in-house by Arcade editor Tim Bent (who also procured Wallenberg's letters). One hopes this book will rekindle interest in resolving the circumstances of this Holocaust hero's death. Photos.
