Survivor recalls rescue activity in Budapest and the role of Raoul Wallenberg

Holocaust survivor Agnes Mandl Adachi describes helping in the rescue effort to pull Jews from the Danube River and the role of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who worked to Hungarian Jews.

Agnes was in Switzerland in 1939 to study French. She returned to Budapest in 1940. After the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, Agnes was given refuge in the Swedish embassy. She then began to work for Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in his efforts to save the Jews of Budapest, including the distribution of protective passes (Schutzpaesse). When the Soviets entered Budapest, Agnes decided to go to Romania.

Learn more about Wallenberg: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005211.

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• Holocaust
• Memorial
• Museum
• survivor
• testimony
• Budapest
• Hungary
• rescue
• Raoul Wallenberg
• Swedish
• diplomat

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she's talking about Budapest, Hungary

[KonradAdenauerJr]

A small correction for the title: Bucharest is Romania's capital, the setting for Mrs. Adachi's narrative is Budapest, Hungary's capital.