Raoul Wallenberg, Righteous Among the Nations, worked and lived in Haifa?! • Dr. David Bar On

1. Thank you for your response. Although I visited the place recently and saw all the changes that are being made today, but I preferred to use the photo I took some time ago.

   • When will we know that the Messiah has come?
     When we see the supervision of the Haifa municipality forcing to return the front of the building to its original state. This is how it is in the municipality whose leader also has a past in architecture.

   • As of today, they continue to break the front. UNESCO will no longer recognize the building it declared.

2. Maybe the honorable architect will return and visit the building and document the new openings that were torn in the walls of the building?
   Literally a redesign

3. https://machteret1944.org
   Rezav the link to the website that tells the story of the underground of the Zionist youth movements.
   In it, of course, the Righteous Among the Nations - Karl Lutz - is included.
   The story is so hair-raising that it is very difficult to understand it and contain it in today's tools.
   There is also an association with the same name that deals with the perpetuation of the story that did not receive the respect it deserved.
   A mighty underground that saved tens of thousands of Jews is less considered because the rescue was done by trickery and without the heroics of a violent uprising. kid

   • Thank you very much, Gadi, a way must be found to bring this chapter in the history of the struggle to save our nation to the attention of many!

4. Very interesting.. I will try to come and participate

   • doe,
     If you intend to come to the "Jewish Savior Badge" distribution ceremony that I talked about, you need to register on the website:
     http://m1944event.aitech.co.il/ kid

5. Interesting article. I didn't know the details about his residence in Haifa, just because of that this building should be declared a building for conservation. Raul's apartment to become a museum of Raul's work. What do you think, Mayor of Haifa? It is not more important than the cultivation of wild pigs in Haifa. what do you think

6. I grew up on Shiloh St. before it got alarmed. The whole environment was lovely. Raul Waldenberg's house was considered luxurious and his neighbor in the house next door was Yosef Almogi. Today neglect rules everything. What a pity

   • thank you for your response. Where was Almogi's house?

   • Almogi lives at 120 Arlozorov St. His neighbor to the building was Shimon Rodik. Both are now streets.

7. There is also a street named after him in Jerusalem. Although it is in the center of the city, but overall a rather shabby alley. Insults and does not reflect his work and courage. Too bad.

   • Thanks for your comment! This is another proof that we do not know how to properly respect those who acted for the benefit of the Jewish people.

8. The Glass House Museum today is located in a building that was then called the "Glass House" (uveg hasz) because of the glass factory of the Jew Weiss who operated there in the past. The museum is located at Vadasz utca 29 in Budapest (vadasz utca 29)
   Karl Lutz is certainly and certainly a follower of the nations of the world.

   The story of the activity of the underground of the Zionist youth movements in Budapest during the war is a wonderful, fascinating story, on the unbelievable border of saving Jews by Jews and saving many non-Jews who opposed the fascist regime of Admiral Horti and his anti-Semitic successors the Arrow Cross people led by Franz Slashy who served as a puppet for the Nazi regime There under the leadership of Eichmann.
   The story of the underground has been immortalized in several books and in Yossi Alfi's program Thousands of Storytellers in 2016.
   The late Avi Dov Farid, who was a member of the underground, is scheduled to receive the "Jewish Savior Medal" along with about 200 others in a ceremony that will be held at Kibbutz Zora on 13.12.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX
   David Gore (Gross) who ran the underground's forgery lab at great personal risk lives today in Ramat Gan.
   You can hear hair-raising stories from him first hand. kid

   • Thank you very much for the fascinating information. I would be very grateful if you could mention the names of books on the subject and perhaps additional sources, such as a documentary.

9. My partner, Dorit Heller, wrote a memorial song about Raul Wallenberg,
   She took to heart his death at a young age in prison, and the suicide of his parents
   When they learned of their son's fate.

10. Wallengrav saved my father, my uncles, and my grandmother. (How I came up with this story is in itself an open miracle.) I am thirsty for every bit of information about Wallenberg. Thank you.

    • Thank you very much, it is very moving to receive a response from a person whose family was saved by Wallenberg.

11. I would add Carl Lutz's name here
    The Swiss consul in Budapest who worked at the same time and by Wallenberg's side.
    The possible explanation for his support for rescuing Jews during the war is that he served as the Swiss consul in Jaffa during the 30s and his support then for the Arab side.

    With the help of his cooperation with the underground of the Zionist youth movements and his turning a blind eye to its activities, nearly 100,000 Jews were saved.
    The underground sat in the "Glass House" - today a museum, from where she managed the huge forgery of Swiss sponsorship certificates and other activities such as orphanages sponsored by Lutz.

    • Thanks for the fascinating information. Which glass house are you writing about? Is Lutz also recognized as a follower of the nations of the world?

12. As someone who was taken from the "protected house" to all his apartments for execution on the banks of the Danube and miraculously survived, I can testify that the whole system of letters of protection and protected houses was a German ploy to collect the Jews of their own good will and concentrate them in an area close to the Danube. Not for nothing did the Russians arrest Wallenberg. In the end the Danube froze and the Russians arrived and all those who had not yet managed to destroy are sure to have been saved because of the letters of patronage. Those who were taken out of the houses for the Danube language cannot be invited to testify.

    • Thank you for your response, exciting information that contradicts what is written in Wikipedia. I recommend trying and correcting the ad posted there.

13. I would like to point out that the sign commemorating Wallenberg was made possible thanks to the contribution of Mr. David Nesher, who also works for the commemoration of Hungarian Jews and in this case did not want the matter to be diluted and postponed due to bureaucratic matters in the municipality.
    Full disclosure, Uncle Nesher is my uncle.

    • Thank you for your response. Is this David Nesher who runs Audiophone on Jerusalem Street?

14. Indeed, you made an enjoyable visit, my reporter friend David, at 17 Arlozorov St. in Haifa. I hope you enjoy it.
    In my opinion, this coverage is reliable and important. Good luck, my friend, Dr. David. And Shabbos Shalom.

    • Thanks so much for your response.

15. Another note - according to publications, the building at Ellozorov 17 is listed in UNESCO as a building for preservation and commemoration
    (The fact that the wife of the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is: Nane Maria Lagergren may also have contributed to this
    that she is the daughter of Wallenberg's half-sister, but I don't know when this status was established in UNESCO)

    • Thanks for the information. It is interesting to know the practical meaning of such a declaration. Will the UN be renovated?
      And preserve the structure?

    • To Dr. David Bar On
      I don't know what the above listing means
      And of course many thanks for the wonderful article and illustration

16. It is gratifying to see how commemorative plaques as well as writing on Wikipedia have value for generations.
    My family had the privilege of working for the signs on Bankim Street, Arlozorov and the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood.
    My relatives Mr. Reuven Rose was the head of the Haifa committee for Raul Wallenberg. And many years after his death, his wife Mrs. Susie Rose worked to preserve the memorial.
    Anecdote - already decades ago, Reuven Rose contacted the municipality (the letter is in my hand) to have a street named after Wallenberg, and after the issue was not addressed, he even suggested that they "donate" Nehemiah Street where he lived for the benefit of the cause, since Nehemiah Street actually consists of two completely separated parts that have no continuity . (a particularly unusual street)
    The sign on Bankim Street was placed about 25 years ago with a donation from citizens.
    In 2005 it was no longer possible to see a sign on the building at Ellozorov 17 (at the time Wallenberg stayed there it was called the "Revitz Pension" the owners of the pension were ultra-Orthodox. In the room where Wallenberg stayed in the pension a refugee from Germany stayed)
    When I saw in 2005 that the sign was gone, I contacted the municipality and a number of different parties. It should be noted that both the ultra-Orthodox family living in the house and the municipality cooperated in Hafetz Lev, and the new sign was already in August.
    In the same year, the blue street sign with a short explanation of the name of the street in Ramat Eshkol was also gone, and the municipality took care of it at my request and re-placed 2 signs.
    (I don't know if today the signs on the street and on the house exist. I hope so, I would love to know)

    • Thank you very much for the instructive information! The signs on Arlozorov Street and Wallenberg Street and Ramat Eshkol exist. I have no information about the sign on Banki Street. It was fitting that the room/apartment where Wallenberg lived should become a memorial site, wouldn't it?

17. This environment was home to doctors, doctors, artists, engineers, teachers, professors.
    Everything has faded and what is there now is a neglected 19th century Teitel with a population that does not care about the environment. Not taking care of the buildings, not taking care of decency, not taking care of the streets, sometimes neglecting themselves. A street that has become nothing more than a noisy road of vehicles in the thousands whistling through the weathered buildings and outdated department stores for the needs of the state and passers-by at the stations coming off Herzl Street waiting for the bus to escape the alienated, noisy and neglected environment created in the heart of Hadar.

    • Thanks so much for your response. This is how worldly fame passes!…

18. Thank you very much for your words, you give me a good reason to continue this project., Shabbat Shalom!

19. As a native of Haifa, your articles always excite and enrich me and your illustrations are beautiful, interesting and add a new angle of view

20. Dr. David Bar On performs a holy work in his writing, it is well done

    • Thank you very much for your kind words.

21. A week ago I passed by Elozorov 17 next to the sign that says that this is Raul Wallenberg's former home. It is exciting to know that such an amazing man who saved so many Jews and whose fate was so tragic, was once a resident of Haifa.

    • Thanks so much for your response.

22. Where are there other people like that man who was the weeping willow???

    • thank you for your response.

23. To think that people of such size as him operated and worked in the last century in places that we are called upon every day in the lower city and that we are in the middle of work or urgent arrangements. Just stop for a moment and go back in time in your imagination and see how these giant Zionist Jews walk and work in these buildings and streets. Yes, as you mentioned in the full disclosure of information Available on various sites, but thank you for bringing it up here in your interesting articles

    • Thank you for your response, indeed we should acknowledge their work and that is my goal

24. Between Beit Wallenberg and Beit Struck there is the "University House" on which there is a sign saying: "In this building, the Municipal Museum of Ethnology and Folklore operated for many years under the management of Prof. Dov Noy, until it was eliminated in accordance with the coalition agreement, its findings disappeared and in its place an ultra-orthodox yeshiva operates."

    • Thanks for your comment, outrageous facts!

    • In the 1960s and 1970s, the Ethnology and Folklore Museum operated in the Herman Struck House, together with the Music Museum and Library. I would come there a lot. Worth a separate article. I really liked the exhibits and the spectacular items. I am interested in knowing what happened to them, and if there is a chance that the museum will be reopened.

25. I knew very well Laszlo Samushi who worked with Wallenberg in rescuing Jews and fought so that he would be given the recognition he deserved. Samushi was a resident of Haifa.
    One of the survivors came from Australia to thank the late Samushi for saving him and was a few minutes late. The ambulance that took Samushi to the hospital passed him. I was present during the exciting and frustrating situation for the man who came from Australia.
    Honorable Lollenberg and all his assistants

    • Thank you very much for your moving response that reinforces the sense of urgency in remembering and honoring those whose work in the past we live in the present.

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