REPLICA OF MONUMENT TO SWEDISH WAR HERO WALLENBERG IS INAUGURATED.
President of the International Council of Christian and Jews, Sigmund Stenberg (L), Buenos Aires Mayor Fernando de la Rua (2nd L), Swedish Minister of Commerce Leif Pagrotsky (C), Argentine Foreign Minister Guido Di Tella (2nd R), and Guy Von Dardel (R), brother of Swedish citizen Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with rescuing some 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War Two, stand in front of a monument to Wallenberg moments after its inauguration in the city's Urquiza Square November 17. The bronze monument, a replica of one made by British sculptor Philip Jackson in Great Cumberland Place in London, is dedicated to Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat assigned to Budapest who rescued Jews by issuing them passports from his country to protect them.
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