A monument to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was unveiled last Friday in the Stockholm suburb where he was born. The 13-foot-tall statue depicts Wallenberg with his hands behind his back, symbolizing how he secretly gave Swedish passports to Jews fleeing the Nazis when he served as a diplomat in wartime Budapest.
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