Obama is drawing parallels between the actions of a Swedish diplomat who saved Jews during the Holocaust and the action he wants to take...
Obama, left, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Nina Lagergren, right, sister of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, view Wallenberg's Swedish passport and samples of the many thousands of protective passports Wallenberg issued to Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary in 1944-45 at a ceremony in Stockholm's synagogue
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