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In the last days of World War II a young Swedish architect was sent to Budapest There he did what no other country or individual was able to do: he saved over 100,000 men women and children from certain death. This dramatic story is based upon interviews with survivors and Wallenberg's family. To this day no one knows his fate but his belief that one person can make a difference endures as a legacy for us all..
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Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the disappearance of a Holocaust hero from Budapest, a collection of his writings features correspondences with family members that provide insight into his beliefs, experiences, and achievements..
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In March 1944, SS Colonel Adolph Eichmann, responsible for implementing the Final Solution, arrived in Budapest, Hungary, with his SS troops and the German Army with orders exterminate the last remaining Jewish community in Europe, which numbered in the hundreds of thousands, by shipping them to death camps or by simply murdering them in the streets.

Under dubious cover as a diplomat in the neutral Swedish Legation but actually working for the American War Refugee Board, Swede Raoul Wallenberg, a Gentile from the family of the Wallenberg business empire, left the safety of Sweden for Budapest in July 1944. His mission: stop the Nazi slaughter of Hungarian Jewry. Everyone responsible for arranging his mission knew that one man had no chance of success, but President Roosevelt had to show he was doing something. Colonel Eichmann dismissed Wallenberg as "just another weak-kneed aristocrat playboy," finding out later how resourceful, brave and skillful the compassionate Wallenberg could be, setting the stage for one of the most dramatic, and seemingly unequal, confrontations of the war. It was the unarmed Swede, assisted by some of his legation colleagues, versus Eichmann, backed by the arms and might of the SS, the Gestapo and several German panzer divisions.

Wallenberg rescued Jews using his knowledge of the Nazi psyche and his artistic and architectural talents, language skills and acting ability. He designed an impressive protective passport with official seals, stamps and signatures for "his Jews," one that gave even the feared Gestapo pause. Using his superb mastery of the German language, he could imitate the most authoritative Prussian general, a skill he used to face down the SS and Hungarian Nazis at railway terminals where Jews were loaded onto freight cars, along the route of forced marches of Jews to the death camps, and in the streets and homes of Budapest. He plucked Jews from the jaws of certain death and deposited them in his Swedish safe houses. Through the use of bribes and threats of postwar retribution by the Allies, he managed to enlist the aid of some of those sworn to carry out the Final Solution. His squad of partisans and Aryan-looking Jews, posing as the SS and Hungarian police, rescued Jewish children at orphanages, patients at Jewish hospitals and countless other Jews, about to be shot and thrown into the Danube.

Despite several attempts on his life by the Nazis, Wallenberg managed to frustrate the powerful SS and Colonel Eichmann for seven months until the final confrontation when Eichmann had most of the Jews of Budapest herded into the Central Ghetto and then ordered the German Army to annihilate the ghetto, presenting the Swedish diplomat with his greatest challenge. Amid the thundering artillery of the Soviet Army on the outskirts of Budapest, Wallenberg invited Colonel Eichmann to an elegant dinner to convince him to abandon his plans to massacre all the Jews in the ghetto. Wallenberg used his considerable intellect and debating skills to demonstrate to Eichmann the fallacies of the Nazi myths foisted on the German people by Hitler. Eichmann, however, while conceding the logic of Wallenberg’s arguments, refused to cancel his murderous plans, leading to Wallenberg’s breathtakingly audacious and climactic face-off with the German Army commander, General Schmidthuber.

This historical novel, based on the author’s years of research, sets out in vivid detail the triumphs of the courageous Swede and the subsequent tragedy of his disappearance after incarceration by the Soviets..
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In The Freedom of the Architect, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rafael Moneo speaks on form, language and history, broadly, and as represented in examples of his own work. He elaborates on how architects today have disassociated their work from the environment, creating autonomous landmarks with little relationship to their surroundings and how the architect as individual challenges the role of history in the built environment. Moneo's reflections on his own work include: The City Hall of Murcia, Spain, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Kursaal Auditorium in San Sebastian, Spain, and the acclaimed Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles. Spanish born, Madrid-based Moneo's work unites tradition and innovation. He has developed an extensive body of work as an architectural critic and theoretician and his writing has appeared in Oppositions and Lotus. He is a committed educator, having chaired the Harvard Graduate School of Design and lectured internationally..
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January 17, 1995, marks the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg, one of the greatest heroes of the Holocaust Here is an authoritative account of Wallenberg's days in Budapest, his mysterious disappearance into Soviet prisons, and the most detailed account available of how he saved over 100,000 Jews from Nazi death camps. 8-page photo insert..
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1944. The Russians are advancing on Budapest. The Nazis, in a last desperate attempt to destroy Hungarian Jewry, have sent Adolf Eichmann to round up as many Jews as possible for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. This is the backdrop for Raul Wallenberg's story..
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