Statue of Raoul Wallenberg

This is a statute of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish businessman and diplomat. It is located in Great Cumberland Place in central London.

Raoul Wallenberg was born in Sweden in 1912. He studied in Paris for one year, and later in 1931 studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After graduating with an architecture degree, he worked in Cape Town and Haifa.

In 1944, during World War II, the W…