On Sunday 19 January the City of Port Phillip hosted the annual B’nai B’rith Vic Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Day and oration. Our CEO Mike Zervos spoke at the event and is pictured with Mayor Louise Crawford, keynote speaker Mike Kelly AM, Former Minister for Defence Industry & Capability and our own volunteer Simone Markus who was the MC for the event.
Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, humanitarian and hero of the Holocaust, saved tens of thousands of people threatened by Nazi extermination in Budapest, Hungary in 1944. He was last seen alive on 17 January 1945 when he was arrested by Soviet troops and transported to the Soviet Union. Despite unconfirmed sightings since then, details concerning the date and place of his death remain a mystery.
Raoul Wallenberg is widely lauded as a hero of humanity who had the compassion to care and the courage to act, confront evil and transform history. Wallenberg’s actions resonate as much today as they did in 1945.