A review by abigailbat
His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg by Louise Borden

4.0

An interesting biography, almost written in verse, and including tons of archival photos. This is the story of a little-known man who saved thousands of Jews in Hungary by basically bullshitting the Nazis. A diplomat from Sweden, he created thousands of passes for Jews with connections to Sweden proclaiming them under Royal Swedish protection and saving them from the Nazis. The cover misled me a little bit because I was expecting to read about a teenage hero when in reality Wallenberg was in his 20s and 30s during the war, but that makes his efforts no less exceptional. I would hand this to teens and tweens interested in Holocaust figures like Anne Frank and Oskar Schindler.