Raoul Wallenberg

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being one of the "Big Men" like the men in his family. He looked at them as fearless Vikings (Linne'a 7,8).
Raoul studied architecture at the university of Michigan in Arbor, Michigan U.S.A. He could learn about banking after collage. He wasn't good in math this isn't good for a future banker (Linne'a 15,18). He finished his architecture course in three and a half years which is a four and a half year class. He won a medal awarded to one student out of each class of eleven

hundred students.

"Thirty five years later Dr. Jean Paul Slusser recall at Ann Abor. ‘He was one of the

brightest and best students I think I had in my thirty year experience as a professor of drawing and painting.'"


One of his classmates remembered him as:

A very talented yet modest person who showed great insight if finding simple solutions to complex problems. Neither his conduct not his manner of dress gave anyone who know him the slightest clew to his high station in life as a ...

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papers in blue and yellow with the three crowns emblem on them. These would aid in the saving of thousands upon thousands of Jews . Different organization funded Wallenberg, but some times the money he spent on these protective passports and safe houses came from his own pocket (Anger 50, 51). Wallenberg always had someone on watch for departing trains. He would show up on a train with long list of protective passport holders and demand that they be let go if any had been mistakenly put aboard. Wallenberg took large numbers of Jews who had no passports at all. This bluff saved many lives (Anger 89,90). Hungary promised passport holders certain buildings at Budapest "Swedish Houses" ...

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