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Wallenberg Medal

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The Wallenberg Medal of the University of Michigan is awarded to outstanding humanitarians whose actions on behalf of the defenseless and oppressed reflect the heroic commitment and sacrifice of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who rescued tens of thousands of Jews in Budapest during the closing months of World War II. [1]

33 relations: American Institute of Architects, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Aung San Suu Kyi, Ágnes Heller, Bryan Stevenson, Bukavu, Century of Progress, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denis Mukwege, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Heinz Drossel, Helen Suzman, Jan Karski, John Lewis (civil rights leader), Kailash Satyarthi, Luise Radlmeier, Lydia Cacho, Marcel Marceau, Maria Gunnoe, Marion Pritchard, Masha Gessen, Miep Gies, Nicholas Winton, Panzi Hospital, Paul Rusesabagina, Per Anger, Raoul Wallenberg, Sompop Jantraka, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Wallenberg family, 14th Dalai Lama.

American Institute of Architects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States.

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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.

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Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, and author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991).

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Ágnes Heller

Ágnes Heller (born 12 May 1929) is a Hungarian philosopher.

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Bryan Stevenson

Bryan A. Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law.

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Bukavu

Bukavu (former official names: Costermansville (French) and Costermansstad (Dutch)) is a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), lying at the extreme south-western edge of Lake Kivu, west of Cyangugu in Rwanda, and separated from it by the outlet of the Ruzizi River.

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Century of Progress

A Century of Progress International Exposition was a World's Fair registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which was held in Chicago, as The Chicago World's Fair, from 1933 to 1934 to celebrate the city's centennial.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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Denis Mukwege

Denis Mukengere Mukwege (born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist.

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Desmond Tutu

Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African Anglican cleric and theologian known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.

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Elie Wiesel

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (’Ēlí‘ézer Vízēl; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor.

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Heinz Drossel

Heinz Drossel (21 September 1916 – 28 April 2008) was a German lieutenant in World War II who was named one of the Righteous Among the Nations, shared with his parents, for helping Jews escape persecution.

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Helen Suzman

Helen Suzman, DBE (7 November 1917 – 1 January 2009) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and liberal politician.

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Jan Karski

Jan Karski (24 June 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a Polish World War II resistance-movement soldier, and later a professor at Georgetown University.

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John Lewis (civil rights leader)

John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and is a prominent civil rights leader.

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Kailash Satyarthi

Kailash Satyarthi (born Kailash Sharma; 11 January 1954) is an Indian children's rights activist.

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Luise Radlmeier

Sister Luise Radlmeier, O.P., was a German religious sister who was led a movement to care for the victims of the military conflicts in central Africa.

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Lydia Cacho

Lydia María Cacho Ribeiro (born Mexico City, 12 April 1963) is a Mexican journalist, feminist, and human rights activist.

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Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau (born Marcel Mangel, 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French actor and Mime artist most famous for his stage persona as "Bip the Clown".

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Maria Gunnoe

Maria Gunnoe (born 1968) is an environmentalist who opposes mountaintop removal mining, and is a winner of the Goldman Prize and Wallenberg Medal.

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Marion Pritchard

Marion Pritchard, (née van Binsbergen; 7 November 1920 – 11 December 2016) was a Dutch-American social worker and psychoanalyst, who distinguished herself as a savior of Jews in the Netherlands during the Second World War.

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Masha Gessen

Maria Alexandrovna "Masha" Gessen (p; born 13 January 1967) is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator and activist who has been an outspoken critic of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin and the President of the U.S.A., Donald Trump.

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Miep Gies

Hermine "Miep" Gies (née Santruschitz; 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010), was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank-Holländer) and four other Jews (Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels) from the Nazis in an annex above Anne's father's business premises during World War II.

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Nicholas Winton

Sir Nicholas George Winton (born Wertheim; 19May 19091July 2015) was a British humanitarian who organised the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport (German for "children's transport").

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Panzi Hospital

Panzi Hospital was founded in 1999 in Bukavu, the capital of the Sud-Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Paul Rusesabagina

Paul Rusesabagina (born 15 June 1954) is a Rwandan humanitarian who, while working as a house manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, hid and protected 1,200 Hutu and Tutsi refugees from the Interahamwe militia during the Rwandan genocide.

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Per Anger

Per Johan Valentin Anger (7 December 1913 – 25 August 2002) was a Swedish diplomat.

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Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (born 4 August 1912, death date unknown)He is presumed to have died in 1947, although the circumstances of his death are not clear and this date has been disputed.

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Sompop Jantraka

Sompop Jantraka is a Thai activist who for more than twenty three years has worked to rescue children from exploitative labour/child trafficking.

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Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

The A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (also Taubman College) at the University of Michigan offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Master of Architecture (currently ranked #6 nationally, ranked #1 in 2010 by DesignIntelligence.), Master of Science in Architecture, Master of Urban Planning, Master of Urban Design, and PhD programs.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Wallenberg family

The Wallenberg family is a prominent Swedish family renowned as bankers, industrialists, politicians, bureaucrats, diplomats.

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14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Thondup, 6 July 1935) is the current Dalai Lama.

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The Wallenberg Endowment.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallenberg_Medal

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