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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Chapters: Companies related to the Wallenberg family, Saab, Ericsson, SKF, Raoul Wallenberg, AstraZeneca, Electrolux, SAS Group, ABB Group, Atlas Copco, Stockholms Enskilda Bank, Investor AB, Stora Enso, Husqvarna AB, IBX Group, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Saab-Scania, Knut Agathon Wallenberg, Swedish Orphan Biovitrum, Grand Hôtel, Foundation Asset Management AB, Jacob Wallenberg, Marcus Wallenberg, André Oscar Wallenberg, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, EQT Partners, Investor Growth Capital. Excerpt: Raoul Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 ¿ July 17, 1947?) was a Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Between July and December 1944, he issued protective passports and housed Jews in buildings established as Swedish territory, saving tens of thousands of lives. On January 17, 1945, he was taken into detention by the Soviets after they entered Budapest, and was reported to have died on July 7, 1947 while in their custody. The circumstances of his death have long been in question, with some disputing whether he died while in Soviet detention. In 1981, Congressman Tom Lantos, among those saved by Wallenberg, sponsored a bill making Wallenberg an Honorary Citizen of the United States. He is also an honorary citizen of Canada, Hungary, and Israel. Israel has also designated Wallenberg one of the Righteous among the Nations. Monuments have been dedicated to him, and streets have been named after him throughout the world. A Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States was created in 1981 to "perpetuate the humanitarian ideals and the nonviolent courage of Raoul Wallenberg". It gives the Raoul Wallenberg Award annually to recognize persons who carry out those goals. A postage stamp was issued by the U.S. in his honor in 1997. Wallenberg as a boyWallenberg was born in 1912 in Kappsta, Lidingö, near Stockholm, where his maternal grandparents, professor Per Johan Wising and his wife Sophie Wising, had built a summer house in 1882. His paternal grandfather, Gustaf Wallenberg, was a diplomat and envoy to Tokyo, Istanbul and Sofia. His parents, who married in 1911, were Raoul Oscar Wallenberg (1888¿1912), a Swedish naval officer who died of cancer three months before his son was born, and Maria "Maj" Sofia Wising (1891¿1979). In 1918, his mother married Fredrik von Dardel (d. 1979); they had a son, Guy von Dardel, and a daughter, Nina Lagergren. In 1931, Wallenberg went to study architecture at the University of