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Hakarat Hatov” – The Recognition of Goodness.
This has led me to establish the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and seek acknowledgement for those who made a difference.
Decades of research have exposed me to the “larger-than-life” women and men who reached out to the victims of the Nazi persecution, the Armenian Genocide and other calamities throughout history. I have decided to dedicate my blogs to these noble people.
Today’s blog celebrates that life and awe-inspiring feats of one of these heroes, who passed away 56 years ago, on February 1, 1965:
Monsignor Angelo Rotta.
Msgr Angelo Rotta. (Wikimedia Commons)
Born in Milan, on August 9, 1872, he was ordained as a priest in 1895 and became Bishop on November 1, 1922. His first diplomatic assignment was in Panama as Apostolic Internuncio to Central America, followed by a post in the Vatican diplomatic corps, in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he started to display his sensitivity towards the plight of the persecuted Jews by issui
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On November 1, 2005, the 42
nd plenary session of the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 60/7, designating January 27 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
60 years earlier, on January 27, 1945, the Red Army liberated the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the largest death factory designed by the Nazis.
Quite ironically, 10 days before the liberation, on January 17, 1945, the Soviet military, in Debrecen, Hungary, arrested Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who had saved tens of thousands of Jewish lives since his arrival in Budapest, on July 9, 1945. Since his inexplicable abduction, the 32-year old Swede vanished from the face of the earth and was
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Raoul Wallenberg briefing his collaborators – Photo Karl Gabor
It is quite understandable that so many words have been written about Raoul Wallenberg, one of the most heroic figures of the 20
th century.
At the early age of 32, this scion of one of the most influential families in Sweden, plunged himself into a fateful mission that would save the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews.
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Chiune Sugihara (Photo: Wikicommons)
Chiune Sugihara was born 121 years ago, on January 1, 1900 in Yaoutsu, Japan. From an early age, he was a bright student. Following his graduation from the prestigious Waseda University in Tokyo, he started his diplomatic career.
He held his first diplomatic post in Manchuria, China, which was under Japanese occupation at that time. In 1934, troubled by the harsh treatment given by the Japanese to the Chinese, he resigned in protest, displaying his first public act of conscience.