62. Wallace D. Fard
Wallace D. Fard is the founder of the Nation of Islam (NOI), a preacher, and a self-proclaimed savior of African Americans. From 1930 to 1934, he was the outspoken leader of the NOI in Detroit, and he had a number of run-ins with the law during that time. He claimed to have been born in Mecca, but the FBI’s investigation revealed that he was born in New Zealand and lived the life of a minor scofflaw once he arrived in America. It was in 1934 when he vanished.
Wallace D. Fard
63. Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg came from a well-connected and respectable family in Sweden. He was recruited as a special envoy for a major rescue operation of Hungarian Jews in 1944 because of his family and business connections throughout Europe. Between March and June of that year, the Nazis deported approximately 400,000 Jews, the majority of whom were sent to Auschwitz. Wallenberg distributed documents to Budapest’s Jews and persuaded Hungarian authorities to allow the documents (known as a Schutz-Pass) to be used as passports. Around 15,000 Jews were saved from certain death thanks to these passports. Wallenberg was arrested by Soviet troops in January 1945 for unknown reasons and later claimed to have died of a heart attack in 1947.
Raoul Wallenberg
