 Wallenberg was revered for saving thousands of Jews from genocide in Nazi-occupied Hungary in the last half of 1944, and disappeared from Budapest on January 17, 1945.His status as a neutral and a diplomat as well as his humanitarian achievements fuel an ongoing international interest in determining his actual fate.In 1981, as assistant to Dr. Irving Greenberg, then chairman of the U.S. President’s Commission on the Holocaust, Mesinai read a confidential eyewitness report that stated that Raoul Wallenberg remained alive in captivity, and posted a letter to him in the reported prison location.