| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1948 |
| Number: | 20 - 5 |
| |
Nominee:
|
| Name: | Raoul Wallenberg |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1912 |
| Year, Death: | 1947 |
| Profession: | Businessman and diplomat |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
| |
| Motivation: | Wallenberg was nominated for his efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews during World War II. In 1944 he established "protected houses" flying the flags of neutral countries, where Jews could be protected from deportation to concentration camps. He also distributed food and clothing to Jewish prisoners and tried to provide some of them with papers and money so that they could escape from the Nazis. Wallenberg advocated peace and humanitarianism through his work for Jewish refugees. |
| |
Nominator 1:
|
| Name: | Bertil von Friesen |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Member of the Swedish parliament |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
| |
Nominator 2:
|
| Name: | Ture Nerman |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Member of the Swedish parliament |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
| |
Nominator 3:
|
| Name: | Wilh. Lundstedt |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Member of the Swedish parliament |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
| |
| Comments: |
Wallenberg was arrested by Soviet authorities in Hungary in Januray 1945. He was sent to a prison in the Soviet Union, and it is assumed that he died in prison in 1947. The nominators emphasized that the Nobel Peace Prize could contribute to hasten his release.
They had enclosed a statement from an investigating committee saying that Wallenberg in all likelihood was alive. |
| |
