58) The Hero of Budapest: The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg by Bengt Jangfeldt (translated by Harry Watson) I first came across the story of Raoul Wallenberg after reading John Bierman’s book ‘Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg Missing Hero of the Holocaust’ after I chose the book for a school assignment. Bierman’s book though only went through his exploits in Budapest and his subsequent disappearance. Given when the book was originally published, there was still conjecture at the time as to his fate after his arrest by Soviet authorities and subsequent imprisonment on the charge of spying. This is a well researched and enjoyable biography of Wallenberg who risked his life to save the Jews of Budapest from being taken to the death camps as part of Hitler’s Final Solution. Using recently accessible documents the author attempts to piece together what exactly happened to Wallenberg after his arrest and while the real truth remains a mystery and even the author himself questions the story given to him because of the source and the amount of conjecture in other archives from the west as to his fate the fact remains that he was indeed an inspiring individual
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