December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews. In less than six months, thirty-eight-year-old SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann has sent over half a million Hungarians to the gas chambers in Auschwitz. All that prevents him from liquidating Europe's last Jewish ghetto is an unarmed Swedish diplomatic envoy named Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg did what no other individual or nation managed to do: He saved more than 100,000 Jewish men, women, and children from extermination. Book jacket.
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