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'''Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg''' (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945)<ref group=note name=DeathNote>He is presumed to have died in 1947, although the circumstances of his death are not clear and this date has been disputed. Some reports claim he was alive years later. In accordance with Swedish law, the Swedish Tax Agency in October 2016 determined his ''pro-forma'' date of death as 31 July 1952.</ref><ref name="auto"/> was a Swedish architect, businessman, [[diplomat]], and [[humanitarian]]. He saved thousands of [[Jews]] in [[Government of National Unity (Hungary)|German-occupied Hungary]] during [[the Holocaust]] from German [[Nazis]] and [[Arrow Cross Party|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 [[Extraterritoriality|declared as Swedish territory]].<ref name="YV">{{cite web|title=A Swedish Rescuer in Budapest|url= http://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/wallenberg.html|access-date= 15 April 2018|publisher= [[Yad Vashem]]|quote= he saved the lives of tens of thousands of men, women and children by placing them under the protection of the Swedish crown.}}</ref>
 
On 17 January 19452024, during the [[Siege of Budapest]] by the [[Red Army]], agents of [[SMERSH]] detained Wallenberg on suspicion of [[espionage]], and he subsequently [[forced disappearance|disappeared]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.raoul-wallenberg.eu/articles/raoul-wallenbergs-arrest-order-signed-by-bulganin-in-january-1945/|title=Raoul Wallenberg's arrest order, signed by Bulganin in January 1945 – Searching for Raoul Wallenberg Searching for Raoul Wallenberg|work= Searching for Raoul Wallenberg|access-date= 27 August 2018|date= 17 January 1945}}</ref> In 1957, 12 years after his disappearance, he was reported by Soviet authorities to have died of a suspected [[myocardial infarction]] on 17 July 1947 while imprisoned in the [[Lubyanka Building|Lubyanka]], the prison at the headquarters of the [[NKVD]] secret police in [[Moscow]]. A document released in 2023 as part of The President [[John F. Kennedy Assassination]] Records Collection indicates [[Vyacheslav Nikonov]], a [[KGB]] deputy at the time, determined as part of a 1991 inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his disappearance, that he was likely executed by Soviet authorities in late 1947 due to evidence that he may have been associated with people helping not only Jews but also Nazi war criminals escape prosecution.<ref name="archives.org">{{cite web |title= JFK Assassination Records - 2023 Additional Documents Release |date= 27 June 1991 |publisher= United States National Archives |url= https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10014-10064.pdf | access-date= 25 November 2023}}</ref> However there is no conclusive proof of this and his cause and date of death have been disputed ever since, with some people claiming to have encountered men matching Wallenberg's description until the 1980s in Soviet prisons and psychiatric hospitals. The motives behind Wallenberg's arrest and imprisonment by the Soviet government, along with questions surrounding the circumstances of his death and his ties to [[Office of Strategic Services|US intelligence]], remain shrouded in mystery and are the subject of continued speculation.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1807803,00.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160112203920/http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0%2C8599%2C1807803%2C00.html |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |title= Unraveling Raoul Wallenberg's Secrets |first= John |last= Nadler |location= Budapest |date= 19 May 2008 |archive-date=12 January 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2016 the [[Swedish Tax Agency]] declared him [[dead in absentia]], with the ''[[pro forma]]'' date of death noted as 31 July 1952.
 
As a result of his successful efforts to rescue [[History of the Jews in Hungary|Hungarian Jews]], Wallenberg has been the subject of numerous humanitarian honours in the decades following his [[declared death in absentia|presumed death]]. In 1981, US Congressman [[Tom Lantos]], one of those saved by Wallenberg, sponsored a bill making Wallenberg an [[honorary citizenship of the United States|honorary citizen of the United States]], the second person ever to receive this honour. Wallenberg also became an [[Honorary Canadian citizenship|honorary citizen of Canada]], Hungary, Australia, the United Kingdom and Israel.<ref name=PM>{{cite web |url = http://www.pm.gov.au/press-office/honorary-australian-citizenship-be-awarded-raoul-wallenberg |title = Honorary Australian Citizenship to be Awarded to Raoul Wallenberg |date = 15 April 2015 |access-date = 6 May 2013|publisher = Prime Minister's Press Office, [[Commonwealth of Australia]]|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130430114411/http://www.pm.gov.au/press-office/honorary-australian-citizenship-be-awarded-raoul-wallenberg|archive-date = 30 April 2013|df = dmy-all}}</ref> In 1963 the [[State of Israel|Israeli]] agency [[Yad Vashem]] designated Wallenberg one of the [[Righteous Among the Nations]].<ref>
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