If you only know of Raoul Wallenberg as history’s most prolific humanitarian who brazenly defied the Nazi death machine by saving 100,000 Jews in the final days of World War II, then you only know half the story, and even less of the truth.
Missing Inaction is an emotion-fueled journey crafted by an Academy, Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning team which unravels the 20th century’s most intriguing unsolved mystery: the fate of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. A member of Europe’s all-powerful Wallenberg dynasty, Raoul spearheaded a secret American mission to rescue the Jews of Budapest, successfully saving 100,000 lives. Rather than being celebrated by the “liberating” Red Army for his deeds, he was abducted and vanished into a prison cell deep within KGB headquarters in Moscow. And while the Soviets claimed that Wallenberg died in prison of a heart attack in 1947, countless sightings of him throughout the USSR over the next 40 years fueled speculation and intrigue into his whereabouts, morphing Raoul’s tragic life into a full-blown Cold-War.
In the final months of World War II, diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, a member of Sweden’s influential Wallenberg family, led a harrowing secret mission for the United States to rescue the Jews of Budapest, the last surviving Jewish community in Europe. Taking extraordinary measures and grave personal risks, Raoul saved as many as 100,000 lives. Upon Russia’s “liberation” of Budapest, Raoul’s triumph turned into tragedy when he was arrested by Russian intelligence and vanished into Moscow’s infamous KGB Prison, never to be seen again. The desperate search for Wallenberg by his family, and countless US presidents, including Carter, Reagan, and a young Senator Biden, sparked seventy years of intrigue and yielded dead-end after heartbreaking dead-end, until now. “Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction” explores the motivations of an unlikely hero, exposes fact from fiction, and for the first time, reveals the fate of a man who saved a generation, but tragically could not be saved.