- Type of Memorial
- Sculptured / Cast figure
- WMR Reference Number
- 47846
- Description
- A statue of Wallenberg in a greatcoat holding schutzpasses in his right hand in front of a rough cast wall with the name WALLENBERG. At the foot of the wall are three schutzpasses.
- Inscription
- PLAQUE:
IN 1944, ARMED ONLY WITH/ DETERMINATION AND/ COURAGE, RAOUL/ WALLENBERG ARRIVED IN BUDPEST AS A MEMBER OF/ THE NEUTRAL SWEDISH/ LEGATION AND SET ABOUT/ RESCUING THE 230,000 JEWS WHO REMAINED / SNATCHING MANY FROM NAZI AND HUNGARIAN DEATH SQUADS/ HE DEMANDED THE REMOVAL / OF OTHERS FROM TRAINS/ DEPARTING TO THE GAS / CHAMBERS AT AUSCHWITZ. HE PLACED TENS OF / THOUSANDS UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE SWEDISH/ CROWN BY ISSUING THEM/ WITH FALSE PASSPORTS./ "SCHUTZ-PASSES", SHELTERING/ THEM IN SAFE HOUSES FROM/ WHICH HE FLEW THE SWEDISH / FLAG.
PLAQUE:
WALLENBERG'S BRAVERY/ HELPED SAVE THE LIVES OF AS/ MANY AS 100,000 MEN./ WOMEN AND CHILDREN/ DESTINED FOR THE DEATH/ CAMPS ONLY BECAUSE THEY/ WERE JEWS. WHEN IN JANUARY 1945, BUDAPEST/ FELL TO THE SOVIET ARMY,/ WALLENBERG WAS TAKEN/ UNDER GUARD TO MOSCOW/ WHERE HE VANISHED INTO THE SOVIET PRISON SYSTEM./ THE LAST RESTING PLACE OF/ THIS SELFLESS HERO IS/ UNKNOWN.
PLAQUE, AROUND BASE:
THE 20TH CENTURY SPAWNED TWO OF HISTORY'S VILEST TYRANNIES, RAOUL WALLENBERG OUTWITTED THE FIRST BUT WAS SWALLOWED UP BY THE SECOND. HIS TRIUMPH/ OVER NAZI GENOCIDE REMINDS US THAT THE COURAGEOUS AND COMMITTED INDIVIDUAL CAN PREVAIL AGAINST EVEN THE CRUELLEST STATE MACHINE. THE FATE OF THE SIX/ MILLION JEWS HE WAS UNABLE TO RESCUE REMAINS AS ONE OF THE EVILS TO WHICH RACIST IDEAS CAN DRIVE WHOLE NATIONS. FINALLY, HIS IMPRISONMENT REMINDS US NOT / ONLY OF SOVIET BRUTALITY BUT ALSO OF THE IGNORANCE AND INDIFFERENCE WHICH LED THE FREE WORLD TO ABANDON HIM. WE MUST NEVER FORGET THESE LESSONS.