August 10, 2016 - Interview with Morris Wolff
August 10, 2016
Interview with Morris Wolff, Author of "Whatever Happened to Raoul Wallenberg?" The true story of Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg and the author's effort to rescue him from Soviet Union imprisonment |
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Morris Wolff
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Filmed by: The Villages Conservative Media
Correction .. The Wallenbergs were not associated with the Federal Reserve being created. 
RAOUL WALLENBERG AND THE RESCUE OF JEWS IN BUDAPEST — PHOTOGRAPH
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Inside story about the true Raoul Wallenberg from the very people whom he saved and others that worked alongside him in his efforts to save Jewish persons in Budapest during WWII. Also chronicles my journey as lead attorney on Von Dardel v. USSR, compelling the Soviet Union to produce the person of Wallenberg or verifiable proof of his death.
About the Author Morris Wolff is a distinguished and highly experienced trial lawyer and public prosecutor. Educated at the Yale Law School, his first assignment was to work directly with Robert F Kennedy on the Civil Rights and Immigration laws of the USA. Tapped by Raoul wallenberg's only brother and other members of the Wallenberg family in 1983 Morris Wolff worked pro bono and without fee for 30 years to achieve the rescue and freedom of Raoul Wallenberg. The details are in his book. He has taught International Law at Kings College in London and the University of Pennylvania in Philadelphia, the city of his birth where he has practiced law for 35 years. He has won many awards. Morris is fluent in French, Spanish and German. He served as the first Secretary General of AIESEC, an international business student exchange program with programs in 85 countries and over 5,000 exchanges per year. In September of 1993 Morris was given the United nations Peace Award for his work on the Raoul Wallenberg rescue effort and his efforts to achieve international peace through student exchange. |
THE WAR REFUGEE BOARD
— US Holocaust Memorial Museum It was not until late in the war that the United States attempted to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. In January 1944, the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., persuaded President Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish the War Refugee Board. Although confirmed reports of the mass murders of Jews had reached the US State Department in 1942, officials had remained silent. During the war the State Department had insisted that the best way to save victims of Nazi Germany’s policies was to win the war as quickly as possible. The War Refugee Board worked with Jewish organizations, diplomats from neutral countries, and resistance groups in Europe to rescue Jews from occupied territories and provide relief to inmates of Nazi concentration camps. Its most extensive rescue efforts were led by Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat based in Budapest, Hungary. Wallenberg helped protect tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from being deported to Auschwitz by distributing protective Swedish passports. Because Sweden was a neutral country, Germany could not easily harm Swedish citizens. Wallenberg also set up hospitals, nurseries, and soup kitchens for the Jews of Budapest. The War Refugee Board played a crucial role in the rescue of as many as 200,000 Jews. However, some people still wonder how many more Jews might have been saved if the rescue missions had begun sooner. Raoul Wallenberg disappeared during the Soviet liberation of Budapest. He was seen for the last time in the company of Soviet troops on January 17, 1945. Ten years later, the Soviet Union admitted that he had been arrested and claimed that he died in prison in 1947. Read More... |