"Schutz-Pass" Signed by the Righteous Among the Nations Raoul Wallenberg

Schutz-Pass [Certificate of Protection] given to Lili Dukes by the Swedish embassy on September 28, 1944. German and Hungarian.
Certificate of Protection indicating that its owner falls under the protection of Sweden. Hand-signed by Swedish ambassador Carl Ivan Danielsson and stamped with stamps of the Swedish embassy in Budapest. In the bottom left corner is another signature (the letter "R") – the signature of Raoul Wallenberg.
The efforts of the Swedish embassy in Budapest to protect the Jews began shortly after the German occupation of Hungary in 1944. The Swedish ambassador, Danielsson, issued temporary Swedish passports to Hungarian Jews who had family or business relationships with Swedish subjects. In July 1944, after many of the Jews of Hungary were sent to Auschwitz, Raoul Wallenberg was sent by the Swedish Foreign Ministry to Budapest to assist in saving the Jews that remained in the city. The Hungarian and German authorities usually respected the authority of the Swedish embassy and Wallenberg succeeded in issuing thousands of certificates which protected their Jewish owners, although they were not legally valid. Wallenberg's efforts to save Hungarian Jewry didn't stop there. He stablished shelters for Jews and pressured Nazi officials to stop the transport of Jews to Auschwitz. According to testimonies, he even used to come to the train station where the Jews were gathered before being sent to Auschwitz, demanding to allow Jews whom he claimed owned Certificates of Protection to alight. In 1966, Raoul Wallenberg was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
This Certificate of Protection was given to Lili Dukes, wife of Dr. Geza Dukes, a lawyer and member of the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Association. In 1938, after the German annexation of Austria, the American Psychoanalytic Association established a special committee whose goal was to assist its colleagues to escape from Europe - The Emergency Committee of Relief and Immigration. Dr. Geza Dukes was aided by the committee; yet remained in Hungary and perished in the Holocaust (see enclosed material).
[1] leaf, 33.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Tears along fold lines. Stains. Minor blemishes. The leaf is mounted to paper for reinforcement.