Obj. ID: 53432  Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Plaque in Lorch Hall, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, 1996

Name of Monument

Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Plaque in Lorch Hall, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

What/Who is commemorated

Raoul Wallenberg

Description

A bronze plaque with a portrait of Raoul Wallenberg in affixed to a wall in the vestibule of University of Michigan’s Lorch Hall, where Wallenberg studied architecture in 1931–1935.

The plaque contains an English text about Wallenberg, surmounted by his relief portrait.

Inscriptions

Raoul Wallenberg, '35

student, architect,
diplomat, humanitarian, martyr

When Raoul Wallenberg passed through the corridors of Lorch Hall as young Swedish student of architecture in the early 1930's there was no suggestion of the heroic role he was to play in World War II. Gifted ahd popular with his classmates, he earned a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1935. 
During World War II, as a diplomat in the Swedish embassy in Budapest, Hungary, Wallenberg issued protective passes to thousands of Jews enabling them to escape the Nazi Holocaust. He was imprisoned by Soviet troops when they captured Budapest in 1945. It is belived Raul Wallenberg died in a Russian prison, date unknown.

Ann Arbor Historical Fondation, 1996

Commissioned by

Ann Arbor Historical Foundation