Raoul Wallenberg Day

Around 100 members of the Melbourne Jewish community and friends gathered at the St. Kilda Town Hall on Sunday to institute the inaugural Wallenberg Day, in memory of the heroic deeds of Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest during World War II. Read more

Milan honoured for helping to save Jews from Nazi concentration camps

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 Holocaust. Read more

Melbourne Raoul Wallenberg Commemoration

The Raoul Wallenberg Unit of B’nai B’rith, together with the City of Port Phillip, has held the annual Raoul Wallenberg Commemoration marking the date on which he was arrested by the Russians in Budapest, Hungary. Read more

Special franking for Wallenberg

Strong Jewish connection to NSW award

NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell has conferred the inaugural NSW Human Rights Award on Andrew Penfold, founder of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation. Read more

Wallenberg citizenship on display

The certificate conferring Australian citizenship on Raoul Wallenberg by Prime Minister Julia Gillard at a recent ceremony held at Government House in Canberra is on public display in Melbourne. Read more

Raoul Wallenberg – an honorary Australian

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced that Raoul Wallenberg has been made an honorary Australian citizen. Read more

Victorian teachers welcomed back

Fourteen Victorian educators have been welcomed back from the 2012/13 Holocaust studies course at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.  Read more

Wallenberg to be honoured in the NSW Parliament

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg – who saved 100,000 Jews from the Nazis – will be honoured at a ceremony in NSW Parliament House tomorrow. Read more

Wallenberg to be honoured in NSW Parliament

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg – credited with saving 100,000 Jews during the Holocaust – will be formally honoured at a ceremony in NSW Parliament House next week. Read more

Waiting for Wallenberg

Stephen Andrews is an 89-year-old resident at Sydney’s Randwick Montefiore Home. In WWII in Budapest, he was given the job to cook for the ill-fated Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg who saves thousands of Jewish lives. J-wire presents a video interview with Stephen Andrews… Read more