Baruch Tenembaum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Argentine interfaith activist
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Place of Birth: Santa Fe, Santa Fe Province, Argentina
About Baruch Tenembaum
- Baruch Tenembaum (born 9 July 1933, in Argentina at Las Palmeras colony, a Santa Fe provincial settlement for Jewish immigrants escaping from the Russian pogroms of 1880), the grandson and son of Jewish gauchos, he studied in Buenos Aires and Rosario.He is best known as an interfaith activist, most recently with the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.In an interview to Zenit News Agency, he was asked about his nomination for the Nobel Prize, to what he replied: "Who am I?...just a descendant of slaves".
- Tenembaum characterized his life as being dedicated "to thank those human beings who saved lives, who risked themselves.
- [...] At the Wallenberg Foundation we work intensively to discover, among others, the exceptional deeds of those heroic human beings." The Wallenberg Foundation aims to pay tribute to the "Saviors of the Holocaust", recognizing those who "risked their lives and freedom to save thousands of Jews from a certain death in hands of the Nazis during the Second World War", the site of the foundation explains.
- Lately, the foundation's charter has expanded to highlight the legacies of rescuers in other major conflicts, such as the victims of the Armenian Genocide. Baruch Tenembaum is a resident of Gibraltar and a member of its small and bustling Jewish community.
- From Gibraltar, he continues his relentless voluntary work to further the mission of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.
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