August 12, 2011

July 2011

STATES OF UTAH AND ILLINOIS PROCLAIM 2011 RAOUL WALLENBERG DAY
Since 2005, the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation has campaigned annually to establish October 5th as Raoul Wallenberg Day throughout the United States. Since then 20 states have decided to join this initiative many of them supporting it multiple times.
Utah and Illinois are the first two states to have proclaimed Raoul Wallenberg Day in 2011, for which we are truly grateful.

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NORWAY´S TRAGEDY
The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation mourns the tragic loss of innocent lives in the heinous terrorist attacks perpetrated last week in Norway and pays its condolences to the bereaved families and to the people of Norway, a peace-loving nation.
It is especially tragic the fact that this senseless act of hatred has taken place in this small Scandinavian country, a vibrant and pluralist democracy in which minorities are respected.

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In the press

NORWAY’S WRITING ON THE WALL
While the world watches in horror the recent developments in Norway and, once again, condemns all forms of political violence, it is tragic to have to remember that less than two years ago was the current Norwegian government who ignored all international warnings against organizing the celebration to pay tribute to the life and work of prominent Nazi writer Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), for the 150th anniversary of his birth.

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THE CARDENAL ANGELO RONCALLI DOSSIER
Wallenberg Foundation presented with great pleasure a special dossier that includes new revelations and evidence documenting the enormous effort of Cardinal Angelo Roncalli to save lives of persecuted people during the dark years of the Holocaust, while serving as the Vatican’s Apostolic Delegate in Istanbul.

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