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A view of Milan, Italy. Credit: Jöshua Barnett/contemplicity.com via Flickr.

Milan honored for helping save Jews from concentration camps during Holocaust

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The city of Milan, Italy, has been named an honorary member of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation (IRWF) in recognition of its residents’ efforts to help rescue Jews from Nazi concentration camps during the...
Rabbi Shlomo Koves with Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén in 2019. Credit: MTI.

Retired Hungarian gymnast, rabbi among recipients of Hungarian Order of Merit

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Two prominent Hungarian Jewish personalities, Ágnes Keleti and Rabbi Shlomo Koves, were among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Hungarian Order of Merit. The winners were announced on March 15, Hungary’s Independence Day. Gymnast Ágnes...

August 4, 1912: Raoul Wallenberg was born

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The best-known “Righteous Gentile,” Raoul Wallenberg, was born near Stockholm on this date in 1912. While serving as Sweden’s special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg saved tens of thousands of...