List of the Righteous Among the Nations from Sweden
The list of the Righteous Among the Nations from Sweden lists in alphabetical order those Swedes who were killed by the Yad Vashem memorial with the title Righteous Among the Nations for non-Jewish individuals who gave their lives under National Socialist rule during World War II to save them from assassination were honored. The year indicates the year in which the person concerned received this title, location means the location of the rescue operation.
Ten Swedes have received the title Righteous Among the Nations :
| Surname | Born | Died | Reason for the honor | place | year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per Anger | December 7, 1913 | August 26, 2002 | Raoul Wallenberg's employee rescuing Hungarian Jews . | Budapest | 1980 |
| Lars Berg | Budapest | 1982 | |||
| Carl Ivan Danielsson | 1982 | ||||
| Elisabeth Hesselblad | June 4, 1870 | April 24, 1957 | 2004 | ||
| Elow Kihlgren | Budapest | 1965 | |||
| Nina Langlet | 1965 | ||||
| Valdemar Langlet | 1965 | ||||
| Erik Myrgren | January 2, 1914 | October 20, 1996 | As a pastor of the Swedish Church in Berlin , he helped many Jews go into hiding and flee to Sweden. | Berlin | 1986 |
| Erik Perwe | January 1, 1905 | November 29, 1944 | As a pastor of the Swedish Church in Berlin, he helped many Jews go into hiding and flee to Sweden. | Berlin | 2006 |
| Raoul Wallenberg | 4th August 1912 | 1947? | Went to Budapest in 1944 as the Swedish legation secretary with a list of names of 800 Jews with ties to Sweden in order to save these people from the Holocaust. There he distributed large numbers of Swedish protection passports , which identified their bearers as Swedish citizens awaiting repatriation . With money from the US War Refugee Board , he rented 32 buildings for around 10,000 living Jews in Budapest, which he declared to be extraterritorial . At the risk of his life, he distributed his protection passports himself to people who were already on the train to Auschwitz . In the last days before the Red Army marched in , one of his people prevented the Hungarian Arrow Crossing plan to blow up the Budapest ghetto with thousands of Jews by negotiating with the last German general in Budapest . | Budapest | 2006 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ “Righteous Among the Nations” - by country and ethnic origin January 1, 2019. Accessed February 3, 2020 .