Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction

Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction

In the final months of World War II, diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, scion of Sweden’s powerful banking dynasty, led a clandestine mission to Hungary, underwritten by The United States government, to save the last surviving Jewish community in Nazi occupied Europe. Undertaking extraordinary measures and at grave personal risk, Wallenberg successfully rescued as many as 100,000 innocent lives. But, when Russia “liberated” Budapest in January 1945, Raoul’s triumph turned to tragedy. Arrested by Soviet intelligence, Wallenberg was incarcerated within Russia’s most infamous KGB prisons. And despite his family’s desperate decades-long pursuit for answers amidst frigid Cold War tensions, global outrage and gut wrenching heartache, Wallenberg was never seen again.

“Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction” explores the motivations of an unlikely hero, exposes fact from fiction, and for the first time, reveals the chilling fate of a man who saved a generation, but tragically could not himself be saved.

Q&A with producer Alex Ruthizer following screening at the EDCJCC.

Presented in collaboration with the Swedish Embassy.