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Raoul Wallenberg is credited with saving the thousands of lives of Jews who were taken into Hitler’s concentration camps during World War II. His devotion and honored Swedish heroism earned him his recognition we acknowledge today. He was born on August 4, 1912, three months after the death of his father, Raoul Oscar Wallenberg. His mother, Maj Wising Wallenberg remarried Fredrick von Darriel in 1918. Wallenberg’s grandfather, Gustav Wallenberg, took care of his education while he was growing up

countries that are less than welcoming of the refugees, like Hungary. European countries need to find humanitarian ways to help the Syrian refugees. Currently, the Syrian refugees can be seen as a nation of people. This nation is in crisis and hundreds of thousands of people are putting themselves in danger to escape a war-torn country. The Syrian refugees have met with many road block when it comes to finding sanctuary in Europe. Hungary has closed it’s borders and is currently fencing off the

brave and determined Jews undertook some form of resistance to fight the injustices of the Nazis. An example is Hannah Senesh, a Jewish fighter who trained as a paratrooper so she could volunteer for an organized secret mission to rescue Jews in Hungary who were expected to be transferred to death camps in Auschwitz. As explained by Louise O. Vasvari, Hannah Senesh is known as a Holocaust hero in Israel and considered the “Israeli Joan

Bela Viktor Janos Bartok, was a musical composer from the twentieth century born on March 25, 1881 in Nagyszentmiklos (Great Saint Nicholas) in the Kingdom of Hungary and died on September 26, 1945 from Leukemia. Bartok suffered a lot from illness when he was a kid. The Bartok family name comes from Bartalan or Bertalan. He had mixed ancestry on his father’s side he was Hungarian and on his mother’s side he was German lineage. His father Bela Senior, was the director of an agricultural school, the

after the Huns, were the Avars, who arrived in the sixth century. The Huns considered these their kinsmen and equals, and later amalgamated with them after the Avars had, in the eighth century, been defeated by Charlemagne and had retreated, some to Hungary and others to the Don country. From the fall of the Huns until the rise of the Mongols some thousand years later, the history of central Asia is simply a repetition of the same theme; some obscure sub-tribe would become important, win leadership

World War I internal issues of Hungary influence the Treaty of Trianon’s affect on the country? Amanda E. Stevenson #IB 000923 0036 20th Century History Internal Assessment   Table of Contents A. Plan of the Investigation 3 B. Summary of the Evidence 4 C. Evaluation of the Sources 5 D. Analysis 6 E. Conclusion 7 F. List of Sources 9   A. Plan of the Investigation This investigation will evaluate the repercussions of the Treaty of Trianon on the country of Hungary. The goal of the Treaty of Trianon

Mikhail Gorbachev stepped onto to the Russian political scene in 1985 as Leader of the Soviet Union. He was very different from the other leaders who had come before him because of their lust and hunger for power. Gorbachev felt that it was more important to promote peace throughout the world than to get what he and the leaders who came before him desired. This desire in Gorbachev's heart eventually led to the tearing down of the Berlin wall, the end of Communism in several European countries, and

everywhere in the world; for example, it happened in Hungary. After the fall of the Communism, the Soviet troops finally left Hungary. I was absolutely happy about the lack of the presence of the Soviet troops. The controversy arose when the war, in the Balkans, broke out. Specifically, the incoming Americans made me feel threatened with their presence. I wondered whether or not the company of the American troops would enhance or destroy the freedom of Hungary. The Soviet occupation lived sharply in my memories

fully grasp the topics of the Holocaust is Hungary, which makes Hungarian director Laszio Nemes film Son of Saul such an impactful debut. Son of Saul works to convey the events of the Holocaust, by placing the viewer into the eyes of Saul, a Hungarian Jew who works as a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz. Son of Saul creates a realistic portrayal of life inside a concentration camp, which activity disrupts the underlying anti-Semitic tension present in Hungary sending the overall message that contemporary

The refugee crisis has been one of the most heavily debated issues of the present times. While supporters view the crisis as a humanitarian issue, there are many others who consider it to be more economic and political in nature. The article chosen for analysis describes the response of different countries in the European Union to the migrant crisis (Smale, 2016). It also presents varying and often conflicting views of members of countries as to what may be a solution to this situation on hand. It