Document providing Swedish protection

A document providing Swedish protection signed by Raoul Wallenberg, Secretary of the Embassy. As a diplomat of the Swedish Embassy, he followed the death marches in the autumn of 1944, distributing protective letters and medicine. He took care of the supplies for the inhabitants of the Swedish protected houses. Fourteen diplomats, who had been working in Budapest during the Arrow Cross rule received later the Righteous Among the Nations Award. They were envoys of the neutral countries (e.g. Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Vatican) or delegates of international and humanitarian organizations (like the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swedish Red Cross). The diplomats started their rescue activities within the legal framework in the spring of 1944, but used every opportunity to extend the circle of protection as wide as possible.