Shoes on the Danube
The Shoes on the Danube Promenade is a memorial created by Gyula Pauer and Can Togay on the bank of the Danube River in Budapest. It honors the Jews who fell victim to fascist Arrow Cross militiamen in Budapest during…
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Raoul Wallenbergs högtidlighölls på svenska riksdagen
Carl Hamilton skriver om svenska riksdagens dubbla budskap om Raoul Wallenbergs anda. http://www.dn.se/debatt/wallenbergs-anda-finns-inte-i-riksdagen
Plea by Paris lawyer on behalf of journalists imprisoned in Eritrea
Reporters Without Borders (http://www.rsf.org) Advocacy 8 February 2012 ERITREA Plea by Paris lawyer on behalf of journalists imprisoned in Eritrea Just two weeks from now, 22 February, is the third anniversary of a raid on Radio Bana in central Asmara in which…
F. v. Dardels dagboksanteckningar angående R. Wallenberg, 1965-1966
Auravägen 25 Djursholm Kära Docent Villius, Samtidigt som jag ber at få tacka för återställandes av Freeds “The Strange Case of Raoul Wallenberg”. Det lilla häftet med akvareller och “Marsch – Wallenberg”, vill jag uttrycka min besvikelse att manuskriptet till…
How was Raoul Wallenberg treated in the Lubyanka prison?
In a recent article Susanne Berger describes the days after Raoul Wallenberg and his driver Vilmos Langfelder were arrested by the soviets, January 17th 1945. They were sent to the Lubyanka prison in Moscow and in july 23 1947 Raoul Wallenberg was…
Archivist challenges Kremlin in Wallenberg saga
Anatoly Prokopenko, who headed the Special Archive concerning documents from 20 different countries in Europe, says in 1991, he saw files in the KGB archive concerning Raoul Wallenberg and count Mikhail Tolstoy-Kutuzov, who followed Raoul Wallenberg to report to his handlers…
The 100 years of Raoul Wallenberg with no date of death
2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz at the end of World War II and later was arrested by Soviet counterintelligence. More about the russian article
Skymning i Budapest
En berättelse om kampen för liv i andra världskrigets slutskede i staden där nazisterna lyckades inte genomföra sitt mål att förinta judarna. Detta är också berättelsen om några av de största svenska hjältarna under 1900-talet, Raoul Wallenberg. Läs mer om Skymning i Budapest>
Gellert Kovacs
Gellert Kovacs has worked on the Raoul Wallenberg project between 2009-2012. He has receiver of funds from the Swedish foreign ministry for research around the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and his contacts in Hungary. He researched for 6 months in Hungarian…
The Swedish Foreign Office decides to investigate more on Raoul Wallenberg’s Fate
After the announcement at AP that the KGB stopped the investigation in late 1990 according to a new documentation. The Swedish Foreign Office investigation will be led by Hans Magnusson together with Russian experts in the 1990s. More information about the…