Wallenberg remembered in Budapest ceremony

"Evil can and must be resisted, even in the darkest hours of history," historian Tamás Kovács said in a speech paying tribute to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg at the Szent István Park on Monday on what would have been his 96th birthday.

Deputy mayor Csaba Horváth as well as representatives of foreign embassies and NGOs laid flowers at the memorial.

Wallenberg saved thousands of Jews during the German occupation of Hungary. The date and circumstances of his death remain unclear to the present day. He left Budapest for Debrecen on January 17, 1945, but never arrived. It is presumed that Soviet troops detained him. The log of a prison doctor states that Wallenberg died in Moscow on July 17, 1947.

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