“I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible.” -
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| Raoul Wallenberg (Aug. 4, 1912 - disappeared Jan. 17, 1945) |
Today is Raoul Wallenberg Day in Canada in honor of his courageous example. Irwin Cotler, a Canadian member of parliament, in an OpEd in The Jerusalem Post last year, described the rescue carried out by Wallenberg:
"From mid-May to the beginning of July 1944, some 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz – the fastest, cruelest, and most efficient killing field in the Holocaust. Wallenberg arrived as a member of the Swedish Legation in Budapest in mid-July 1944. In a remarkable demonstration of ingenuity and inspiration, bluff and bravado, he rescued some 100,000 Jews in the last six months of 1944 and the beginning of 1945, more than any other single government or organization."
Nonviolent resistance to the radical evil of the Nazis by courageous Danes and German housewives also worked and saved thousands of Jewish people from the Holocaust.
It should come as no surprise that Wallenberg was abducted by Soviet Communist forces. The Nazis and the Soviets had been partners in the partition and conquest of Poland six years prior, in September 1939.
Let us honor Raoul Wallenberg for all the lives he saved, and let us also continue to demand justice for this good man, who had his life taken by Josef Stalin.
The Russians refuse to reveal what they did to Wallenberg, and his family has filed a lawsuit against them.
In 2016, Sweden declared him dead.
In honour of #RaoulWallenberg Day, read this poignant piece and interview with @IrwinCotler by @HilleltheScribe
— Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (@TheRWCHR) January 17, 2026
"[Raoul Wallenberg] demonstrated how one person with the compassion to care and the courage to act can prevail over evil.”https://t.co/mw5lfxmg5M
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