Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg was a Swedish architect,businessman,diplomat,and humanitarian. He saved thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian fascists during the later stages of World War II. While serving as Sweden's special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944,Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings which he declared as Swedish territory.
Thomas Peter Lantos was a Hungarian-born American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1981 until his death in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented the state's 11th congressional district until 1993,and from then the 12th congressional district,which both included the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of the southwestern part of San Francisco after redistricting.
Ángel Sanz-Briz was a Spanish diplomat and humanitarian. Sanz is credited with saving more than 5,200 Jews in German-occupied Hungary from the Holocaust in the later stages of World War II.
Per Johan Valentin Anger was a Swedish diplomat. Anger was Raoul Wallenberg's co-worker at the Swedish legation in Budapest during World War II when many Jews were saved because they were supplied with Swedish passports. After the war,he spent a lot of time trying to clarify Wallenberg's fate.
The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005,in Budapest,Hungary. Conceived by film director Can Togay,he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer to honour the Jews who were massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War. They were ordered to take off their shoes,and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. The memorial represents their shoes left behind on the bank.
Lars Ernster was a professor of biochemistry,and a member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation.
The Raoul Wallenberg Award is bestowed by The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States on "individuals,organizations,and communities whose courage,selflessness and success against great odds personified those of Raoul Wallenberg himself." It has been awarded periodically since 1985,when the inaugural award was given to Wallenberg himself.
Károly Szabó was an employee of the Swedish Embassy in Budapest from 1944 to 1945 when he rescued Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. He was a supporter of Raoul Wallenberg and had a significant role in making contact with the representatives of the Hungarian police and other state officials. He was arrested without legal proceedings in 1953 in Budapest,in a secret trial.
Angelo Rotta was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. As the Apostolic Nuncio in Budapest at the end of World War II,he was involved in the rescue of the Jews of Budapest from the Nazi Holocaust. He is a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism.
Russia–Sweden relations date back to the 10th century;when Vikings called Varangians participated in the founding new states that later evolved into Russia,Ukraine and Belarus.
Hungary–Sweden relations are foreign relations between Hungary and Sweden. Sweden has an embassy in Budapest. Diplomatic relations between the two countries started on 28 December 1945. These relations developed to a higher ambassador level. In Stockholm there is a Hungarian embassy. Both countries are members of the Council of Europe,European Union and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Imre Varga was a Hungarian sculptor,painter,designer and graphic artist. He was regarded as one of Hungary's most important living artists,and he has been called one of the "most skilled sculptors in Hungary."
Otto Fleischmann was a Hungarian-born Freudian psychoanalyst.
Carlos de Almeida Afonseca Sampaio Garrido was a Portuguese diplomat credited with saving the lives of approximately 1,000 Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary while serving as Portugal's ambassador in Budapest between July and December 1944.
LászlóSzabó is a Hungarian diplomat,physician,businessman and politician,who served as Hungarian Ambassador to the United States between 2017 and 2020. Prior to that,he served as CEO of the Teva Hungary Ltd. pharmaceutical manufacturing (2010–2014),then Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Third Orbán Government (2014–2017). He presented his credentials to U.S. President Donald Trump on 8 September 2017.
Nina Viveka Maria Lagergren was a Swedish businesswoman and the half-sister of Raoul Wallenberg,and the leading force to find out what happened to him after his disappearance. She was the founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Academy. She also presented Sommar i P1 in 2014 on Swedish Radio. She was the mother-in-law of Kofi Annan.
The political impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is the influence that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on politics around the world. The pandemic has affected the governing and political systems of multiple countries,reflected in states of emergency,suspensions of legislative activities,isolation or deaths of multiple politicians and reschedulings of elections due to fears of spreading the virus. The pandemic has triggered broader debates about political issues such as the relative advantages of democracy and autocracy,how states respond to crises,politicization of beliefs about the virus,and the adequacy of existing frameworks of international cooperation. Additionally,the pandemic has,in some cases,posed several challenges to democracy,leading to it being undermined and damaged.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected international relations and caused diplomatic tensions,as well as resulted in a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding a global ceasefire.
