Brooklyn New York 13th Avenue renamed Raoul Wallenberg Way

The most popular Jewish shopping street in Brooklyn, New York, 13th Avenue, is being renamed to Raoul Wallenberg way, to honor the 100,000 Jews he saved from the Nazi German regime, according to press reports.

The stretch of 13th Avenue in Borough Park will be co-named Raoul Wallenberg Way on December 9.

Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat stationed in Budapest in 1944, who saved 100,000 Jews from the Nazis by issuing them documents which offered Jews protection in Sweden.

The ceremony will take place on 50th Street, at noon December 9th. The change was approved by the New York City Council in February.

The stretch will run from 36th Street to 60th Street, the busiest part of the Orthodox Jewish commercial shopping district, filled with dozens of kosher and Sabbath observant shops.