A monument to Raoul Wallenberg has been officially dedicated, nearly 40 years after an earlier statue was removed mysteriously on the eve of its dedication.
The bronze-and-granite monument, dedicated Friday, was a gift to the Hungarian people from Nicolas Salgo, the former American ambassador here.
It was erected last month in a small park on the Danube, after a period of uncertainty over whether the communist government was ready to go through with the project.
Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, remains a subject of embarrassed ambiguity for the Hungarian regime, because he either died in a Soviet prison or remains a prisoner of the Soviet Union.
He disappeared during the Soviet army`s conquest of Budapest in 1945.
