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June 2008

Prologue to Budapest: Raoul Wallenberg and Special-Metall Förening

    To researchers of the Raoul Wallenberg case, the years between Raoul Wallenberg’s return from Israel (then Palestine) in 1936 and his departure for Budapest, remain full of question marks regarding his personal and professional activities. We know he threw himself in a number of business ventures which did not yield great success. He also owned a small printing house (AB Tryck) which appears to have remained operational while he was in Budapest, but which faced difficulties in turning a profit.Read More »Prologue to Budapest: Raoul Wallenberg and Special-Metall Förening

    Sweden refuses to press Russia for Key Files in the Raoul Wallenberg Case

      In spite of the sharply worded conclusions by two Swedish Commissions – the Swedish-Russian Working Group from 2001 and the Eliasson Commission from 2003 – that Russian efforts to investigate Raoul Wallenberg’s fate in the Soviet Union have been deeply flawed and evasive, the Swedish government has shown no urgency to ensure that researchers can review material deemed vital for clarifying the circumstances of Raoul Wallenberg’s disappearance in Russia.Read More »Sweden refuses to press Russia for Key Files in the Raoul Wallenberg Case