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Historical footage and interviews focus on Eichmann’s fanaticism, the Siege of Budapest in 1944–45 and Wallenberg’s role in saving 70,000 Jews from the Nazis.
Curator’s notes
Gabriel Bach, assistant prosecutor at the Eichmann trial, speaks of Eichmann’s obsession in murdering the Jews. Wallenberg did what he could to assist the Jews on death marches to the border. Eichmann threatened to kill Wallenberg, who then embarks on his last rescue mission, the saving of 70,000 Jews in the Budapest ghetto. It was his greatest achievement, but there is sad irony in Wallenberg’s stated belief that ‘only the Russians can save us now’ since he is believed to have died in a Soviet prison after the war ended.
