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Wallenberg

Raoul . 1912--? Swedish diplomat, who helped (1944--45) thousands of Hungarian Jews to escape from the Nazis. After his arrest (1945) by the Soviets nothing is certainly known of him: despite claims that he is still alive he is presumed to have died in prison
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Also, this shareholders' nomination board has elected Wallenberg as its chair.
Being the founder of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, I naturally had and still have a warm relationship with Nina Lagergren.
The Swedish Tax Authority, which registers births and deaths in Sweden, confirmed to The Associated Press that a report Monday in the Expressen newspaper that Wallenberg had been declared dead was accurate.
Wallenberg will continue tooversee the engineering department and set the direction of Cobalt products, while addingmanagement responsibilities for thecompany's new compression division created as a result of Cobalt's recent acquisition of ImmediaTV .
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat working at the Swedish embassy in Budapest.
He pays special attention to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who was among the people who tried their best to save them.
Mostly funded by Jewish groups, this was a Hail Mary pass that needed a man in the field to help Jews escape--a task that fell to Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish businessman with no previous diplomatic experience.
It also offers excellent mechanical properties, including strength, toughness, low density and low thermal conductivity." The finding was published in the American Chemical Society journal, Biomacromolecules, and the project financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biologics company, and its global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune, have agreed a three-year collaboration with the newly established Wallenberg Centre for Protein Research (WCPR).
During simple rites at Quezon Memorial Circle, the Philippine leader was awarded Wednesday the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation (RWF) Medal for his life-saving plan and for reaching out to the victims of the Nazi murderous machine.
Synopsis: After reading a graduate student's thesis about the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Budapest from 1944 to 1945, Professor Manny Gellerman--part-time detective, historian, and novelist--follows the twists and turns along unorthodox paths and uncovers some uncomfortable truths that may explain what happened when Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviets in 1945, taken to Moscow, and left to fester in a Lybianka prison.