Deportations from Hungary resumed a collaboration between the Germans and members of the Arrow Cross party. Some 70,000 Jews were marched from Budapest toward the Austrian border in a combination deportation and death march. The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who had already managed to issue thousands of Jews in Budapest with diplomatic protection papers, pursued the great convoy of deportees in his car, removed hundreds of passport holders, and led them back to Budapest. He even rescued such persons from the railroad station where they waited to entrain to Auschwitz. In all, he saved about 20,000 people, whom he housed in special buildings under Swedish protectionΓÇöthe so-called "international ghetto," next to the main ghetto of Budapest.
