A seminar was held the same day where the speakers were Mr. Giorgi Tughushi, the ombudsmen of Georgia and Mrs. Marie Tuma, director of the Wallenberg Institute in Lund, Sweden. Representatives of Governmental and non-Governmental organizations, University professors and students, workers of archives and museums attended the seminar which opened with a 9-minute Hungarian documentary about Wallenberg.

A candle lightning ceremony was held later on where honorary representatives of Georgian as well as international society were invited. The first candle was lit by the Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude, Ilia II.

Attendance was free for the Swedish film “Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg” which was shown at 7 o’clock the same day.

On Aprilwas a Swedish diplomat in Nazi-occupied Hungary who led an extensive and successful mission to save the liv 19, olive trees were planted in “Mziuri“ park by the Mayor of Tbilisi, Mr. Gigi Ugulava, Ambassadors of Israel and Hungary, Mr. Itzhak Gerberg and Sandor Szabo and Ms. Åsa Pousard, Charge d'Affaires of the Swedish Embassy.

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Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat in Nazi-occupied Hungary who led an extensive and successful mission to save the lives of nearly 100,000 Hungarian Jews. Though his efforts to save Jews from the Holocaust is one of the most treasured aspects of that time, his fate and ultimate death is unknown still to this day.

On January 17, 1945 during the Siege of Budapest by the Red Army, Wallenberg was detained by Soviet authorities. He was later reported to have died on July 17, 1947, while imprisoned in the Lubyanka, a building located in Moscow, Russia, but there are some suspicions that he lived longer.

Due to his courageous actions on behalf of the Hungarian Jews, Raoul Wallenberg has been the subject of numerous humanitarian honors in the decades following his presumed death. In 1981, U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos, himself one those saved by Wallenberg, sponsored a bill making Wallenberg an Honorary Citizen of the United States. He is also an honorary citizen of Canada, Hungary, and Israel. Israel has also designated Wallenberg one of the Righteous among the Nations. Monuments have been dedicated to him, and streets have been named after him throughout the world. A Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States was created in 1981 to "perpetuate the humanitarian ideals and the nonviolent courage of Raoul Wallenberg". It gives the Raoul Wallenberg Award annually to recognize persons who carry out those goals. A postage stamp was issued by the U.S. in his honor in 1997.