Per Anger, the Swedish diplomat who assisted Raoul Wallenberg in the struggle to save Hungarian Jewry, has died in Stockholm at the age of 89.

Max Grunberg, Chairman of the Raoul Wallenberg Honorary Citizen Committee, said that Anger died Monday morning at his home of injuries suffered in a fall several days ago.

Anger had a distinguished career spanning four decades in the Swedish foreign service, serving as Swedish ambassador to Canada and Australia.

But his defining experience was as secretary in the Swedish legation in Budapest, where he personally saved numerous Jews by granting them "provisional passes" which allowed them to escape the Nazi occupation.

Wallenberg joined the Swedish legation in 1944, and the effort to rescue Hungarian Jews was greatly accelerated, ultimately resulting in the rescue of more than 100,000 Jews.

Anger often accompanied Wallenberg to scenes of Jewish deportation, where the two Swedes would pull numerous people out of line and shove life-saving passes into their hands.

On several occasions, the two men climbed into crowded death trains and dragged dozens of Jews away, warning the German guards "not to interfere in offical Swedish business."

After Wallenberg was taken prisoner by the liberating Soviets in January of 1945, Anger dedicated his life to discovering the fate of his partner, a fate still unknown. Anger chaired the Wallenberg Association of Sweden, and managed his government's Wallenberg file until 1989.

Anger was named a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1983, and became an Honorary Citizen of Israel in September of 2000.

"Anger and Wallenberg were two great humanitarians who chose to put themselves at risk in order to save Jewish lives. They were two outstanding beacons of light in an otherwise dark and dismal world," Grunberg said.