2012 is the Year of the Heroic Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul WallenbergThe new year, 2012, will be the year in which Sweden’s Raoul Wallenberg is celebrated and honoured around the world.
Already Wallenberg – who would have turned 100 on August 4th, 2012 - has had countless places, streets, squares, monuments and parks named after him around the world.
Wallenberg was the young man who saved tens of thousands of Jews in Budapest from the Holocaust during the final stages of the Second World War by creating false papers called Schutzpasse that, miraculously, were honoured by the Nazis.
Wallenberg used many creative situations to help Jews escape, rescuing them from death marches and trains headed for the death camps.
In January 1945 the Soviets arrived in Hungary as the war neared its end. Despite an offer by the Foreign Department to leave the country, Raoul and his colleagues remained, continuing their rescue work. Wallenberg was taken away by the Russians. Although several people claimed to have seen him alive, his fate is a mystery to this day. The Swedish government and many organizations, including the International Raoul Wallenberg Committee have searched for information about him but to no avail.He was then caught by the Soviet army and became a victim of Stalin's dictatorship.
This is why the Swedish Government has decided to organize a number of activities in 2012 - both in Sweden and internationally - to commemorate his deeds and the continued need for tolerance and the fight for human rights. No one personified this endeavour better than Raoul Wallenberg.
The Raoul Wallenberg Year now has both a website and a Facebook page. Many of the hundreds of different events dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg throughout the world will focus on communicating his message about personal courage and standing up for others to children and young people.
"It is important that we remember and honour Raoul Wallenberg, one of the greatest Swedes,” says Olle Wastberg, the Swedish government’s coordinator of Raoul Wallenberg Year. We can honour him best by passing on to new generations knowledge about both Raoul Wallenberg as a person and the importance of individual responsibility and personal courage in crucial situations."
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