Stockholm – A U.S. senator has handed over a document bestowing the Congressional Gold Medal upon Raoul Wallenberg to the World War II hero’s 91-year-old half-sister.
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The medal is the highest U.S. civilian honor and recognizes the Swedish diplomat’s “heroic actions” to save tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps.
Sen. Johnny Isakson, a Georgia Republican, on Wednesday presented the act approving the medal to Nina Lagergren in a ceremony at the Swedish Parliament.
Parliament spokeswoman Karin Flygare said Lagergren will receive the gold medal at a later date.
Wallenberg, who would have turned 100 this year, was detained by Soviet authorities in 1945 and is believed to have died in captivity, though the time and circumstances of his death remain a mystery.
“It is very heartwarming to see Mrs Lagergren receive the recognition by our government for her tireless efforts, throughout the past several decades to ascertain the whereabouts of her half brother Raoul Wallenberg”, said Ezra Friedlander, who established the Raoul Wallenberg Centennial Celebration Commission which spearheaded the efforts to award Wallenberg with a Congressional Gold Medal.
How I wish, that we would be able to teach, Our kids, to love and have empathy for people of all ethnicities, Yidden and Non-Yidden.
Starting from this Rosh Hashana., maybe we should include all of mankind in our prayers for Shlach Refuah Shleimo.
We should all be Zoche to Ksuva Vchasima Toivo.
To: #2
…We have that peculiar notion about the”goyim” …
We’ve had this peculiar notion about “Goyim” even in the early 1800’s, when Germany was extremely friendly to Yidden. Then in the early 1900’s, HKB”H turned them all against Yidden.
We should stress to our children, the importance of loving and caring for every Human, which HKB”H created.