The former home of a World War II hero credited with saving thousands of Jews during the Holocaust may face the wrecking ball to make room for more dorms at the University of Michigan. University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CANNES, France — Featuring voiceovers by Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Lee Curtis and Brian Cox – reading out letters from Raoul ...

Next year will mark the 70th anniversary of the disappearance in a Soviet prison of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish businessman who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews in the darkest days of the ...

New evidence from Russian archives suggests Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with rescuing tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, was alive after Soviets reported that he ...

The 100 th anniversary of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg’s birthday was celebrated Saturday with a call for a day on the Swedish calendar to honor the man who saved thousands of Jews during World ...

With this month marking the 72nd anniversary of the disappearance of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War Two, U.S. Rep. Ileana ...

A memorial bust of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in Moscow. During the Holocaust, Wallenberg handed out Swedish papers to Jews as they were crowded into the infamous cattle cars herding them to ...

Karen Olofsdotter, Sweden’s ambassador to the United States, was in town recently to deliver the 2019 McSwain-Walker Lecture at the College of William and Mary. Her visit at the college was an ...

A Moscow court threw out a lawsuit against Russia’s main security agency filed by relatives of Raoul Wallenberg, seeking documents related to the Swedish diplomat's final years before his death in a ...

A new chapter in the ongoing saga of the attempts to discover Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg's fate began on January 17, 2016, the 70th anniversary of Wallenberg's arrest in Budapest by advancing ...

Raoul Wallenberg was the diplomat who would appear like a phantom in Budapest, handing out the Swedish passports that saved some 15,000 Hungarian Jews from being murdered by the Nazis. But Wallenberg ...

In December 1944, the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg attended a small dinner party in Budapest; also at the table was the Nazi Adolf Eichmann. The two men were in Hungary on opposing missions: ...