A Hero’s Many Faces: Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary MonumentsRaoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. This book examines how thirty-one Wallenberg monuments, in twelve countries on five continents commemorate the man. |
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Contents
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The Monuments Protagonist | 31 |
Raoul Wallenberg in Historiography and Popular Imagination | 41 |
Raoul WallenbergA Heros Tale | 51 |
Raoul Wallenbergs Deed | 81 |
New York Public Library Manhattan | 98 |
Philip Jackson The Wallenberg Monument 1997 | 115 |
Jewish Museum Sydney Australia | 126 |
Imre Varga The New Raoul Wallenberg Memorial | 159 |
Raoul Wallenbergs Legacy | 169 |
Jon Rush Köszönöm Raoul Wallenberg Thank You Raoul | 191 |
Gustav and Ulla Kraitz Hope 1998 New York | 220 |
Raoul Wallenbergs Insubordination | 233 |
Challenges Comparisons and Conclusions | 259 |
Catalog | 303 |
Notes | 364 |
Franco Assetto Angel of Rescue 1988 Los Angeles | 130 |
Raoul Wallenbergs Fate | 133 |
Australia 135138 | 135 |
Uga Drava Pietŕ 1987 Nepean Ottawa Canada | 150 |
Bibliography | 400 |
Photograph Credits | 417 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Hero’s Many Faces: Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments The Holocaust and its Contexts |
| Author | T. Schult |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0230236995, 9780230236998 |
| Length | 425 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / Criticism & Theory Art / Techniques / General History / Asia / General History / Europe / General History / General History / Middle East / General History / Modern / General History / Social History |
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