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By With Analysis from Monitor Correspondents around the world; Edited by Mark Muth

September 24, 1981

The House of Representatives voted 396 to 2 to grant honorary citizenship to Raoul Wallenberg, the missing Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from deportation to death camps during World War II.

The House vote followed a unanimous vote by the Senate in August. Winston Churchill is the only other person to be granted this honor.