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Hungarian Who Helped Jews Flee Holocaust Honored in Budapest

by Associated Press

   BUDAPEST, HUNGARY --

   A Hungarian who printed thousands of passports allowing Jews to flee
   the country during World War II has been honored with a memorial
   plaque.

   Emil Wiesmeyer's printing company initially made 4,000 of the basic
   passports, part of efforts by Swedish special envoy Raoul Wallenberg to
   save Jews from Nazi death camps.
   He then produced about 20,000 more on his own to help Jews make it out
   of Hungary.
   The plaque honoring Emil Wiesmeyer was unveiled Wednesday in Budapest
   by Szabolcs Szita, director of the Holocaust Memorial Center, and
   Swedish Ambassador Niclas Trouve

   Some 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

   Wiesmeyer later suffered persecution and was jailed in the 1950s,
   during Hungary's communist era.

   Wiesmeyer died in 1967. His son Gabor attended the ceremony.