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PHOTO NUMBER:

J-53496

MISSING BEFRIENDER OF JEWS IS HONORED

NEW YORK--Participants mark "Raoul Wallenberg Day" by placing

candles at the Isaiah Wall near the United Nations on Mar. 27.

Mr. Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in war-time Budapest helped save nearly

100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War II. He was

taken prisoner by the Soviet Army in 1945, and reported dead

in 1947.

Many groups, including the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai

B'rith and the U.S. Free Raoul Wallenberg Committee, believe reports that

he is still languishing in a Russian prison and have pressed the

USSR, without success, regarding the matter.

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