This Shutz Pass and 2 others were issued by Raoul Wallenberg as Swedish Ambassador to Hungary during WWII to my great grandmother and her parents. The passes gave them protection as Swedish citizens so that the Nazis did not deport them to concentration camps. They spent the end of the war in hiding in Budapest with my grandmother who was a little girl and eventually my great-grandfather after he escaped from a slave labor camp. They all survived the war. This pass represents a great man's attempt to save Jews from the Nazi ravages and the salvation of a part of my family during the war.

It is significant to me because my great grandparents and my grandma would not be born. I would not have been born without my great-great grandparents receiving this.