This TV Series ran many years ago on CBS and received a number of Emmy awards. It's a Holocaust horror story and is worth retelling over and over again. The production was somewhat dated in terms of graphics and music background and also included some romantic parts that I thought were not necessary.
PS. I was able to see the Passport of Wallenberg at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC some years ago. The Russians had loaned it to the museum. I will never forget seeing the Passport of this unbelievable man.
From Netflix: Richard Chamberlain plays Raoul Wallenberg, scion of a well-to-do family of Swedish bankers. Although he is a Christian "Aryan," Wallenberg despises the anti-semitism of the Hitler regime. Not content with merely sitting back and viewing with alarm, Wallenberg vows to help as many Jewish victims of the Nazis as possible. Employed as a diplomat at the Swedish embassy in Budapest during World War II, Wallenberg is responsible for the escape of over 100,000 Hungarian Jews, thereby earning the enmity Nazi functionary Adolph Eichmann . The story does not have a happy ending.
From Wikipedia: On January 17, 1945,[6] during the Siege of Budapest by the Red Army, Wallenberg was detained by Soviet authorities on suspicion of espionage and subsequently disappeared. He was later reported to have died on July 17, 1947, while imprisoned in the Lubyanka, a building located in Moscow, Russia, housing both the KGB headquarters and its affiliated prison. The motives behind Wallenberg's arrest and imprisonment by the Soviet government, along with questions surrounding the circumstances of his death and his possible ties to US intelligence, remain mysterious and are the subject of continued speculation.[7]
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