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Wallenberg had been born, Holiday Best Wishes into a family of Enskilda bank- Golden Dawn Beauty Salon ers, counterparts of American J. P. Morgans. His ,grandfather, Specializing in Hair Styling, Silver-Blonding, Swedish minister to Turkey and Permanent Waving, Hair Tinting under '1 Japan, helped direct his educa- Personal Supervision of Ella Meyers. tion, which was culminated by a Open Eventin,gs term in a French university and a University of Michigan archi- Call for Appointment, UN. 1-2048 tectural degree in 1935. Follow- 13442 W. McNICHOLS ing employment in Capetown, South Africa; he did bank ..........-----............-...........—.............................-......... work in Haifa, where he first realized the plight of world Best Wishes for a Happy Passover Jewry. ,fin 1941, as manager of To Our Friends and Patrons a large import-export firm deal- ing with South Central Europe, he acquired intimate knowledge of Budapest, where he made frequent trips. 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Passover - Greetings His accomplishments included ordering "all prisoners" at the Jose -- ::.s:ader railroad .d e p o t "with Swedish protective pass- ports to disembark from cattle Realtors cars" en route to labor camps. Gambling on German offi- 1440 Cadillac 'Square WO 5-1455-56 cers' ignorance of Hungarian, he winkingly demanded custody of all with Swedish papers in the Hungarian language. Assis- tants hurriedly issued genuine Holiday Greetings protective passports in lieu of bills of lading, income-tax re- ceipts and innoculation papers he attested as provisional Swed- ish papers. When the Nazis demanded census of his buildings harbor- 234 State St. WO 5-6770 ing 10,000 Jews over the agreed limit, he bribed census takers with protective passports for their own families. 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Thereafter, he was reported in Raab, Hungary, Bessarabian and Moscow prisons by former inmates. Stalin's Kremlin claimed ig- norance to numerous Swedish questions about him. Finally, after a of articles pub- lished in a Stockholm daily by Dr. Claudio del Mohr, a former Russian prisoner, who communicated with Wallen- berg by tapping on adjacent Moscow prison walls, the Rus- sians reported his -jail cell death — a "heart attack" in July, 194'7. Del Mohr claims Wallenberg mentioned no heart trouble and was alive- a few months after the stated • date. , In 1945. Wallenberg was awarded King Gustav's Quorum" decoration for human- itarian work. A Budapest Jewish Central Hospital pavil- lion was named after the dip- lomat. A statue portraying him as St. George slaying a swas-_ tika-marked dragon has been removed by the Russians, who also renamed a street the Hun- garians created in his honor. 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