Survivor describes hiding after her family received protective papers from Raoul Wallenberg

Holocaust survivor Eva Brust Cooper remembers hiding after her family received protective papers from Raoul Wallenberg. Having studied in the United States in the 1930s and having established himself in a business career in Sweden, he was recruited by the U.S. War Refugee Board (WRB) in June 1944 to travel to Hungary. Given status as a diplomat by the Swedish legation, Wallenberg's task was to do what he could to assist and save Hungarian Jews.

Eva was little affected by the war until 1944, when the Germans occupied Budapest. Eva's father was prominent in the Jewish community, and the family was able to retain their apartment in a Jewish star house (a house designated for Jews). In October Eva's parents secured protective papers from Raoul Wallenberg, but the family decided not to stay in a Swedish safe house. They hid in and near Budapest until the Soviet liberation of Budapest in 1945.

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

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