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Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who worked in Budapest during the Second World War.
He helped to save lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews who would have been sent to the concentration camps by the Nazis.
Wallenberg provided Hungarian Jews with Swedish passports.
It is not known what happened to Wallenberg. He was placed on a train leaving from Budapest on January 17, 1945 and he was never heard from again.
WORDS
diplomat: a person, such as an ambassador, who represents a government.
concentration camp: a place where prisoners of war are kept under harsh, terrible conditions.
“…he was never heard from again. = … nobody has heard about him since that time, he has disappeared.”
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