本书是《“帮助过世界的人们”传记丛书》之一，讲述了二战中帮助犹太人逃脱纳粹魔掌的瑞典青年外交官——拉奥尔·华伦伯格的故事。全书采用中英文对照的方式，并附有大量内容相关的精彩图片，是一本雅俗共赏的人物传记。

Impossible mission

In the darkest days of July 1944 an obscure

young Swedish diplomat abandoned the

comfort and safety of home for an impossi-

ble rescue mission in one of the most dan-

gerous places on earth.

His name was Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg.

His destination, Nazi-controlled Hungary.

The Nazis there planned to murder every

one of the country's 750,000 Jewish men,

women and children. Wallenberg's brave

ambition was to rescue as many as possible

from the jaws of death.

The plan to kill Hungary's Jews was the

last part of the so-called "Final Solution",

the insane Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's at-

tempt to murder every single Jew in Eu-

rope.

By 1944, Hitler had largely succeeded.

The pitiless and all-powerful Nazis had

scoured the continent looking for Jews to

kill. Millions were already dead. Whole

Jewish populations had been burned. Now

the Nazis and their many thousands of eager

accomplices were determined to repeat the

process in Hungary--the last surviving Je-

wish community in Europe.

艰巨使命

1944年最黑暗的日子，一位不为人

知的瑞典青年外交官为了到地球上最

危险的一个地方完成一桩几乎不可能

实现的营救使命，放弃了家的安全和舒

适。

他就是拉奥尔·古斯塔夫·华伦

伯格。他的目的地是纳粹控制下的匈牙

利。

那里的纳粹分子正计划将国内的

75万名犹太人无论男女老幼全部杀害。

华伦伯格的大胆设想就是把尽可能多

的犹太人救出死亡的魔爪。

疯狂的纳粹头目阿道夫·希特勒

企图杀害每一个在欧洲的犹太人，为此

制定了所谓的“最后解决”计划。杀害犹

太人就是其中最后的一个组成部分。

到1944年为止，希特勒在很大程

度上达到了他的目的。残忍而无所不为

的纳粹搜遍欧洲大陆追杀犹太人，造成

千百万犹太人被害，整个犹太人种族遭

受了巨大的创伤。匈牙利已是欧洲仅存

的犹太人聚居点。而现在，纳粹和他们

无数一味逢迎的帮凶又铁了心要在这

一国度重施恶行。