Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Raoul Wallenberg across 5 places, from 1912 to 1947.
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Raoul Wallenberg (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945) was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Raoul Wallenberg was documented, and when
1912year
Lidingö Municipalityattested“Wallenberg was born in 1912 in Lidingö Municipality, near Stockholm, where his maternal grandparents, Per Johan Wising and his wife Sophie Wising (née Benedicks), had built a summer house in 1882.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
1912year
Stockholmattested“Wallenberg was born in 1912 in Lidingö Municipality, near Stockholm, where his maternal grandparents, Per Johan Wising and his wife Sophie Wising (née Benedicks), had built a summer house in 1882.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
1931year
University of Michiganattested“He spent one year there, and then in 1931 he studied architecture at the University of Michigan in the United States.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
1931year
United Statesattested“He spent one year there, and then in 1931 he studied architecture at the University of Michigan in the United States.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
1947year
Lubyanka Buildingattested“He concluded that Wallenberg died in 1947, executed while a prisoner in Lubyanka.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
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1935year
University of Michiganmentioned“Levine, who wrote in his monograph about Wallenberg: Wallenberg graduated from the University of Michigan in 1935 with a degree in architecture.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
1936year
Stockholmmentioned“He returned to Sweden in 1936, securing a job in Stockholm with the help of his father's cousin and godfather, Jacob Wallenberg, at the Central European Trading Company, an export-import company trading between Stockholm and central Euro…”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
1936year
Swedenmentioned“He returned to Sweden in 1936, securing a job in Stockholm with the help of his father's cousin and godfather, Jacob Wallenberg, at the Central European Trading Company, an export-import company trading between Stockholm and central Euro…”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
1938year
Nazi Germanymentioned“Beginning in 1938, the Kingdom of Hungary, under the regency of Miklós Horthy, passed a series of anti-Jewish measures modeled on the so-called Nuremberg Race Laws enacted in Germany by the Nazis in 1935.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
1941year
Budapestmentioned“He soon learned to speak Hungarian and, from 1941, made increasingly frequent travels to Budapest.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
1944year
Hungarymentioned“According to Giorgio Perlasca, who posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944 and saved 5,218 Jews, Pál Szalai lied to save his life during his criminal trial, and the history of the saving is different.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
19 June 1944exact date
Auschwitzmentioned“The second was a six-page Hungarian report that detailed the ghettoization and deportation of 435,000 Hungarian Jews, as updated to 19 June 1944, by towns, to Auschwitz.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
21 June 1944exact date
Romaniamentioned“On 21 June 1944, George Mantello received and immediately publicized two important reports given to him by Romanian diplomat Florian Manilou, who had returned from a fact-finding trip to Romania and Budapest at Mantello's request.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
21 June 1944exact date
Mantellomentioned“On 21 June 1944, George Mantello received and immediately publicized two important reports given to him by Romanian diplomat Florian Manilou, who had returned from a fact-finding trip to Romania and Budapest at Mantello's request.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
9 July 1944exact date
Budapestmentioned“When Wallenberg reached the Swedish legation in Budapest on 9 July 1944, the intense Nazi campaign to deport the Jews of Hungary to Auschwitz had already been underway for several months.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
7 November 1944exact date
Barimentioned“Of more significance was a communique transmitted by the OSS Secret Intelligence Branch in Bari, Italy on 7 November 1944.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
1945 to 1947period
United Statesmentioned“considered Jacob Wallenberg strongly pro-German, and in 1945, the Federal Bureau of Investigation subjected the Bank to a blockade from engaging in business in the United States that was only lifted in 1947.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
17 January 1945exact date
Debrecenmentioned“At the height of the fighting, on 17 January 1945, Wallenberg was called to General Malinovsky's headquarters in Debrecen to answer allegations that he was engaged in espionage.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
21 January 1945exact date
Lubyanka Buildingmentioned“On 21 January 1945, Wallenberg was transferred to Lubyanka prison and held in cell 123 with fellow prisoner Gustav Richter, who had been a police attaché at the German embassy in Romania.”source: Wikipedia: Raoul Wallenberg
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