331 - Raoul Wallenberg; The Swedish Schindler
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The German Government Takes Away the Validity of the Passes
The swedish legation in budapest managed to say, if you've got this pass, you don't have to wear it. So point the german government took away the validity of the passes. ral appealed to the wife of the hungarian minister for foreign affairs,. And it worked. The woman was able to convince her husband to honour nine thousand passes that had already been issued a bcause they were like, no, they're not legit. And then he just convinced them. A bunch of money had been raised for the war refugee board, largely by the jewish community in the us. With that money, ral rented 32 buildings in buddh Budapest. These buildings
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