Monument by sculptor
Imre Varga
to the thankful memory of W.W. II
hero and savior of countless people
caught in the jaws of Fascism / Hitler's
death squads
Raoul Wallenberg
He was a Swedish diplomat who used his
position to save over 20,000 Hungarian
Jews from the extermination camps. He
set up safe houses in the city and obtained
fake Swedish documents for them. When
the Soviet army took control of Budapest
in 1945, Wallenberg disappeared. It is thought
that he was arrested by the KGB and sent
to a prison/work camp where he died. The
memorial at the junction of Szilagyi Erzsebet
fasor and Magyajtai Utca_ is near
Aquincum -- which was founded at the
beginning of the 2nd Century C.E.
and Capital of the Roman province of
Pannonia -- an archaeological treasure
that was not excavated until the end of the 19th
Century and even in the 21st, only one-third
of this expansive ancient town has been unearthed.
READ MORE IN Budapest : DK Random
House / Penguin (2022) pages 184-6.
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