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Gann, Christoph

    Christoph Gann’s Raoul Wallenberg website
    Research on Wallenberg mission in Budapest

    Christoph Gann is the author of a very well regarded book concerning Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary and his fate in USSR – “Raoul Wallenberg. So viele Menschen retten wie moeglich” („To save as many lives as possible“). He has organized exhibitions about Raoul Wallenberg, “Lichter in der Finsternis: Raoul Wallenberg und die Rettung der Budapester Juden 1944/45” (“Lights in the darkness: Raoul Wallenberg and the rescue of Budapest Jewry 1944/45”), shown in Germany, Hungary and Austria since 1994. Gann is judge at the District Court in Meiningen/Germany and scientific collaborator of the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.

    Dr. Craig Graham McKay

      Dr. Craig Graham McKay is the author of From Information to Intrigue, Studies in Secret Service based on the Swedish Experience, 1939-1945 (Cass:London, 1993) and (with Bengt Beckman) Swedish Signal Intelligence 1900-1945 (Cass: London, 2003). He is principally interested in scrutinizing claims that Raoul Wallenberg’s mission to Budapest may have had an intelligence dimension.

      Grunberg, Max

        Max Grunberg actively promotes the Raoul Wallenberg case and the search for his fate. He has written endless letters to different Governments. Many of them remain unanswered.

        Lajos, Attila

          Made his doctor’s dissertation at Växjö University (Sweden) about Raoul Wallenberg activities during his period in Budapest. Is now associate professor in history at the faculty for culture and society, Global Political Studies in Malmö University, Sweden. Published: “Raoul Wallenberg 1912-2012 and… 

          Lantos, Tom and Annette

            Tom Lantos was a US Congressman. He sought refuge in a safe house established by Raoul Wallenberg. His wife Annette was also saved by Raoul Wallenberg. They were very active for the US Honory Citizenship for Raoul Wallenberg.

            Levine, Paul

              Assistant professor of history in the program for Holocaust and genocide studies at Sweden’s Uppsala University and is writing a book about Raoul Wallenberg.

              Lucki, Simone

                Le Parlement européen a adopté jeudi à l’unanimité une résolution demandant à l’Union soviétique de rouvrir le «dossier Raoul Wallenberg» et de mettre toutes ses archives à la disposition d’une commission internationale d’historiens et d’experts. Cette demande s’est faite par adoption à l’unanimité d’une résolution introduite au nom des chrétiens-démocrates, des libéraux et des socialistes. Cette résolution avait été déposée à l’insistance de Simone Lucki, présidente du «comité Wallenberg-Belgique».

                Childhood and holocaust in Budapest 1944-1945

                  My testimony

                  Susan Winter Memory in Budapest (english)

                  Susan Winter Memory in Budapest (hungarian)

                  I will attempt to write down what happened to me and my family between 1944-1945. I am not sure I will succeed because I don’t know what are my own memories and what I recall because of what others told me.

                  On March 19, 1944 the Germans entered Hungary, rather Budapest, where I lived with my parents and grandparents. The same morning my father went to Eastern Train Terminal (Keleti P‡lyaudvar) to buy tickets for my mother and I to go to Di—szeg, which is today part of Romania, but at the time belonged to Hungary. He thought that it may be easier to survive in a small place than in a large city.

                  Tom Veres, the photograph of the Hungarian holocaust

                    Born 1923, Budapest, Hungary

                    After the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, Tom was ordered to work in labor camps and factories. He escaped after a few months and decided to contact the Swedish legation, where he met Raoul Wallenberg in October 1944. Tom stayed in Budapest and, using his training in photography, became active in Wallenberg’s efforts to rescue the Jews of Budapest. He made copies of and took photographs for protective passes (Schutzpaesse), and documented deportations.