Raoul Wallenberg Award

This article covers the Raoul Wallenberg Award from the American Swedish Historical Museum . For information on the award given by the Council of Europe, see the Raoul Wallenberg Prize .

The Raoul Wallenberg Award is an award given by the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia to individuals, organizations, or institutions that have made exceptional contributions in the field of human rights and overcoming human suffering.

The award is named after Raoul Wallenberg , who, as a Swedish diplomat in Budapest from 1944 to 1945, saved thousands of Jews from deportation .

Award winners (selection)

• 1985: Raoul Wallenberg (in absentia)
• 1987: H. Ross Perot
• 1990: Miep Gies , assistant to Anne Frank and Senpo Sugihara, Japanese diplomat
• 1991: Alan C. Greenberg
• 1994: Harvey M. Meyerhoff, Thomas Veres, Nicolas M. Salgo
• 1995: Elizabeth Dole , US politician
• 1997: Robert S. Strauss , Ambassador
• 2000: Elisabeth and Alexander Kasser
• 2001: Göran Persson , Swedish Prime Minister
• 2003: André Chouraqui
• 2005: Nathan Peter Levinson
• 2007: Rachel Bernheim from the Kibbutz Yakoum, who received an award for her life's work. She promoted the values ​​of solidarity and civic courage through her personal story about the atrocities of the Holocaust.
• 2008: Elliot Broidy
• 2017: Charles Aznavour , because he and his family hid Jews during World War II.

Web links

• Committee website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Raoul Wallenberg Award Recipients , website of the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States of America, accessed on January 12, 2010
2. ^ The Raoul Wallenberg award was presented in Tel Aviv to Ms Rachel Bernheim of Kibbutz Yakoum , accessed on January 12, 2010
3. ↑ Charles Aznavour was venerated and honored in Israel In: Israelnetz.de , October 2, 2018, accessed on October 8, 2018.