Whereas for 72 years, the full accounting of Raoul Wallenberg’s arrest and the mystery of his fate remains unsolved, despite the continued and determined search for answers; Whereas the current research and pool of knowledge recognizes and continues the tireless efforts of Raoul Wallenberg’s parents, Maj and Fredrik von Dardel, and the countless scholars and volunteers who have worked determinedly for over seven decades to solve the question of Raoul Wallenberg’s fate; Whereas Raoul Wallenberg was born August 4, 1912, in the Lidingö Municipality of Stockholm, Sweden; Whereas in 1931 Wallenberg traveled to the United States to pursue his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; Whereas, after graduating in 1935 with high honors, Wallenberg received his bachelor degree of Science and Architecture and then returned to Sweden; Whereas finding the market for architects in Sweden very restricted, Wallenberg traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, to work at a Swedish firm selling building materials; Whereas six months later, Wallenberg transferred to a Dutch Bank located in Haifa—today, northern Israel—where Wallenberg first met Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany; Whereas in 1936, Wallenberg returned to Sweden where he eventually became the international director of the Central European Trading Company (Mellaneuropeiska), and later co-owned this Stockholm based import-export company with the Hungarian-Jewish businessman, Kálmán Lauer; Whereas in June 1944, Wallenberg accepted a Swedish diplomatic appointment to travel to Hungary on a humanitarian mission to help protect the Jewish community there, a mission that was sponsored in large part by the U.S. War Refugee Board, which itself was just created earlier that year; Whereas Raoul Wallenberg is credited with saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews through his work with the U.S. War Refugee Board