Posted by Irwin Cotler
Today is an important moment of remembrance and reminder. It marks the 63rd anniversary of the January 17th, 1945 disappearance in the former Soviet Union of Raoul Wallenberg, the lost hero of humanity, whom former Israeli President Chaim Herzog called "the Saint Just of the Nations." Wallenberg, a Swedish non-Jew who saved thousands of Jews in the Holocaust, is the embodiment of the Talmudic idiom that whoever saves a single life, it is as if they have saved an entire universe.
Wallenberg - the lost Hero of the Holocaust - confronted the Nazi killing machine and showed not only that one person can make a difference, but that one person can resist, that one person can confront, that one person can indeed prevail over radical evil.
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