Budapest city officials are replacing a statue commemorating the wartime heroism of Raoul Wallenberg. Officials removed the worn and battered original statue from a Budapest park so that a bronze copy could be cast and erected in April. Wallenberg is credited with saving thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, where he led a rescue mission by issuing them Swedish passports.
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