London’s memorial to Raoul Wallenberg: The diplomat who saved thousands

In a small crescent on a side street near Marble Arch stands a memorial to a remarkable man who was twice declared to be dead.This is the memorial to Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who used his position as Sweden’s special envoy to Budapest to save thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian fascists during the later stages of World War II.
However, during the Soviet siege of the city in 1945, he was snatched by Soviet agents and