[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11656]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      HONORING RAOUL WALLENBERG WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL

  (Mr. HULTGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Raoul Gustaf 
Wallenberg of Sweden for his heroism during World War II.
  Yesterday, I was humbled to join my colleagues in the U.S. Capitol to 
present Wallenberg's Congressional Gold Medal to his half sister, Nina 
Lagergren.
  In 1944, President Roosevelt appointed Wallenberg to the War Refugee 
Board to protect more than 700,000 Jews living in Budapest. With 
assistance from Sweden, Wallenberg denounced violence, exemplified 
unparalleled courage, and perpetuated the highest of humanitarian 
ideals.
  Although he mysteriously disappeared en route to Moscow at the end of 
the war, Wallenberg is credited with saving 100,000 Jews from certain 
death in concentration camps. In 1981, Congress awarded Wallenberg 
honorary citizenship posthumously, one of only six other non-U.S. 
citizens so honored, including Sir Winston Churchill.
  Wallenberg's work endures as a model of service to humankind and as a 
model of courage in the face of danger.

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