“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
Wallenberg Memorial Inaugurated in Budapest
30.06.2014
A memorial to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was inaugurated on 17 June in central Budapest.
Wallenberg and other heroes that saved people embarked on bringing hope to Hungarians in a hopeless situation, stated the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade at the ceremony.
These people saved Jews and others, risking their own life and often sacrificing it; the memorial is a sign that the Holocaust must never happen again in history, he added.
Karin Olofsdotter, the Swedish ambassador in Budapest, said that Wallenberg arrived in Hungary as a Swedish diplomat with the sole task to save as many Jewish people as possible.
The memorial, set up in Erzsébet square, was made by Hungarian-born Swedish sculptor Gustav Kraitz and bears the title “Do not forget!” Olofsdotter added that the location was chosen due to the many young people passing through the square.
Photo: Zsolt Burger