Foreign minister notes his father also faced death in Budapest Ghetto, but sends message of love and unity to ultra-Orthodox Haredi cleric Meir Mazuz

Budapest resident Agnes Keleti, a winner of the Israel Prize, took home 10 medals in gymnastics - including 5 golds - at the 1952 Helsinki and 1956 Melbourne Games

On a train in 1942, an SS officer told a Swedish diplomat of the industrialized murder of Jews at the Belzec extermination camp. But the horrifying revelation was kept under wraps

Scandinavian nation plans museum with focus on survivors and a center devoted to Raoul Wallenberg, a diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in WWII

When Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, Arie Even, his mother and brother had to go into hiding for nearly a year, at times in bales of hay and in underground cellars

Stockholm has long resisted pressure to confront Moscow over the diplomat, who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust

Raoul Wallenberg bribed, cajoled, persuaded and even threatened German and Hungarian officials to play ball; what happened to him remains unclear