Wallenberg saved Jews while serving as Sweden’s special envoy in Budapest during World War II. Friday marks 75 years since he was abducted by the Soviets.
“On January 17, 1945, after the Red Army entered Hungary, he was arrested by the NKVD [Soviet secret police] and taken to Moscow. His subsequent fate is unknown,” a spokesman for Poland’s Foreign Office said.
Wallenberg was in 1963 posthumously awarded the Righteous Among the Nations medal by the Yad Vashem Institute in Israel.
“He became a symbol of activities to save human lives throughout Europe,” the Polish Foreign Office spokesman added.
The memorial event to honour Wallenberg took place on Friday at the intersection of Raoul Wallenberg and Świętokrzyska streets in central Warsaw.
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