Raoul Wallenberg Monument

Location:
Traffic island at 1st Avenue and East 47th Street, along Raoul Wallenberg Walk
Sculptor:
Gustav Kraitz; Ulla Kraitz
Architect:
Abel, Bainson, Butz
Description:
Five columns, each with two sides rough-hewn and two sides smooth; sphere atop column 1; replica of attaché case; cubical paving blocks
Materials:
Columns--black Swedish diabase; sphere--blue ceramic; replica of attaché case--bronze (red patina); paving blocks--basalt
Dimensions:
Column 1 H: 14'8"; Column 2 H: 17'; Column 3 H: 13'8"; Column 4 H: 17'; Column 5 H: 18'; Sphere diameter 3'3"; paving blocks H: 6¼" L: 6¼" W: 6¼"
Cast:
1998
Dedicated:
November 9, 1998
Foundry:
Bermans Bronze Foundry, Stockholm, Sweden (attache case)
Fabricator:
Broby Granit AB, Sibbhult, Sweden
Donor:
Marcus Storch and family (in memory of Hilel Storch)
Inscription:
Inscription 1
ON JANUARY 17, 1945
RAOUL WALLENBERG
WAS DETAINED
AND IMPRISONED BY
THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT.
HIS FATE REMAINS
UNKNOWN.


Inscription 2
….RAOUL WALLENBERG,
WITH EXTRAORDINARY
COURAGE AND WITH
TOTAL DISREGARD
FOR THE CONSTANT
DANGER TO HIMSELF,
SAVED THE LIVES
OF ALMOST
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
MEN, WOMEN,
AND CHILDREN….
---
-FROM THE 1981
JOINT RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS,
MAKING
RAOUL WALLENBERG
AN HONORARY CITIZEN
OF THE UNITED STATES


Inscription 3
"I COULD NEVER
RETURN TO STOCKHOLM,
KNOWING THAT I HAD
FAILED TO DO
EVERYTHING
WITHIN HUMAN POWER
TO SAVE AS MANY
JEWS AS POSSIBLE"
-RAOUL WALLENBERG


Inscription 4
DISPLAYING GREAT
DARING AND INGENUITY,
RAOUL WALLENBERG
SAVED THE LIVES
OF COUNTLESS
HUNGARIAN JEWS
BY PLACING THEM
UNDER THE PROTECTION OF
THE SWEDISH GOVERNMENT


Inscription 5
DEDICATED TO
RAOUL WALLENBERG
A SWEDISH DIPLOMAT
BORN IN 1912,
WHO WAS STATIONED
IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
1944-45