a group >> alex kershaw's lay the book is "the envoy." mr. kershaw, who is "the envoy"? >> some people say that he saved 100,000 lives neared the end of the second world war. he became -- there are only two ornery americans, winston churchill and raul wallenberg. reagan made him an honorary american to recognize the fact that he saved over 100,000 lives which today some people say is 1 million. so you have one guy who went up against the greatest evil of modern times and the result is that there are 1 million people alive today, who would not be. >> how did he do that? >> he was very clever. he used, he bribed, he cajoled, he did whatever he could as a swedish diplomat in hungary in 1944 to try and stop adolph eichmann from killing the last of europe. in 1944 there was only one country where you had any jewish left alive and that was hungary. eichmann went into hungary and early 1944 on a mission to kill the last jews of europe. wallenberg was sent there funded by the americans on behalf of roosevelt and managed to save over 100,000. so, it is an inspiring story. his sto