Raoul Wallenberg återvänder, i form av allt fler monument och utställningar. Men hur ska han gestaltas? Hos Statens ljud- och bildarkiv ger man besökarna flera sinsemellan mycket olika bilder. Läs vidareTextstorlek: Normal textStörre textStörst textSkriv ut I morgon tisdag inviger…
“Self financing Genocide; the Gold Train, the Becher and the Wealth of Hungarian Jews”, by Gabor Kadar & Zoltan Vagi, ed. CEU Press “When Angels fooled the World, Rescuers of Jews in Wartime Hungary “, 2003, The University of Wisconsin…
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In my talk “Three Puzzles” delivered at a symposium on Wallenberg at Utrikespolitiska Institutet in Stockholm in December 2007, I devoted a section to the so-called “Smit Connection”. By this turn of phrase, I meant partly Raoul’s friendship with the young Dutch girl Berber Smit and partly the fact that Berber’s father, Lolle, the Philips manager in Budapest, was an active player in Allied underground activities in Hungary during the war. “The Smit Connection” was yet another vivid reminder- if it were needed!- of how Wallenberg’s mission was carried out against a background of delicate interacting forces, many of which were not readily perceptible. Nor could it have been otherwise, given the situation occasioned by war.