About the Program

Mission

The ”Raoul Wallenberg at School” educational program spreads the values of solidarity, civic courage and interfaith dialogue in order to promote a pluralistic and democratic society. The mission of the program deals with the civic responsibility and the defense of the universal human rights. The program goes out to high shools and universities with the goal of raising awareness of the capital importance of building up a harmonic and pacific development of the relations among people and countries, stimulating an appropiate interpretation of history and current events. The program focuses on spreading the deeds of Raoul Wallenberg and thousands of saviors that saved Jews and other people persecuted by the Nazi regime during World War II. The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation pursues to set as universal examples the feats of the Saviors of the Holocaust whose moral values know neither geographical nor time boundaries.