The exhibition, called To Me There's No Other Choice - Raoul Wallenberg 1912 ? 2012, marks the start of the Wallenberg Memorial Year. Put together by the Swedish Institute in Stockholm, it will travel to Moscow, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Washington DC, New York and Toronto after it leaves Budapest.
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt said at the opening off the exhibition that Wallenberg had risked his life and then sacrificed it to rescue tens of thousands of Jews from an evil ideology, and the representatives ?of a similarly evil ideology? abducted him in Budapest on January 17, 1945.
The exhibition starts off light hearted, presenting photographs and documents of Wallenberg?s childhood; it continues with ?the dark days? and ends with an optimistic promise of the future, Bildt said
The historian László Csorba, chief director of the Hungarian National Museum, said the exhibition was not a conventional one with objects, but a collection of tableaux that press visitors to think further about what they see and experience. He added that it includes several high-tech elements.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
