Today, 80 years ago, on January 17, 1945, the disappearance of the Swedish diplomat Vallenberg triggered the events in Vallenberg.

On January 17, every year, several Western countries organize events to commemorate the disappearance of the Swedish diplomat Raul Wallenberg on January 17, 1945.

In 1944, at the end of World War II, 33-year-old Wallenberg was appointed first-class secretary of the Swedish Embassy in Hungary. At that time, he had a special mission: to save as many lives as possible of Jews who were in the hands of Nazi Germany and most likely killed. Wallenberg risked his life, and for more than six months, he issued Swedish passports for tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews to escape the Tiger.

Shortly after the Soviet Red Army invaded Budapest in January 1945, Wallenberg disappeared. Someone saw him on January 17 as the same Soviet officer and took a car to the Soviet military command in Debrecen, after which he did not appear again. The Soviet side first denied his detention, and later, after repeated interrogation by Sweden, the Soviet side issued a statement in 1957 that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in 1947 in the Lubianka prison in Moscow. Some believe that the Soviet Union suspected Wallenberg was an American conspiracy and arrested.

Without any evidence of the death of Wallenberg, the Soviet Union¡¯s statements did not bring this to an end. Until the late 1980s, there were continuous reports that Wallenberg was still alive. The past Swedish government and relatives of Wallenberg did not believe that Wallenberg was dead. The Swedish government had negotiated with the Soviet Union many times, and the Soviet side in most cases did not consider it at all, and occasionally reiterated the declaration of 1957. In 1982, the Swedish government published a detailed, 13,000-page document on the event, which still failed to clarify the issue. But the memory of Wallenberg¡¯s activities continued to develop in Western countries, and on January 17, 1985, at least 25 countries held a commemoration event. At that time, Swedish Prime Minister Palme made a statement

In 1981, Wallenberg became an honorary citizen of the United States, and President Reagan called Wallenberg a "great figure."