Canadians work to unravel mystery surrounding WWII hero’s death …“The Soviet Union has always had a position about Wallenberg. The trouble is the position kept on changing over time and the subsequent position contradicted the earlier position. So it’s just…
This spring marks the 65th anniversary of Raoul Wallenberg’s mission to Hungary. Earlier this week, Holocaust Remembrance Day was held in Ottawa, with survivors, MPs and senators from all parties, ambassadors from about fifty countries and many others recalling the worst catastrophe in recorded history inflicted by Hitler’s regime, which included one and a half million children among the six million murdered.
In Sweden, many people are quite tired of Raoul Wallenberg. They, as Swedes, may not shout out directly ‘Do not bother us with this old story again’ but from their reluctant reactions you recognize at once, you better be quiet. However, their reactions could also be understood in a more positive sense. In Sweden, heroes are not very popular – it is a nation driven by the wish to build a democratic society which should be open for each and every one; that also means that no one should stick out! If we leave out the moral guilt official Sweden feels for one of their greatest sons, whom they ingloriously abandoned after the end of World War II when Raoul Wallenberg became a prisoner of the Soviet Union, we understand that the Swedish reactions are not quite as inappropriate as they may seem at first.
Raoul Wallenberg reddet flere tusen jøder fra gasskamrene, og så forsvant han – tilsynelatende uten spor. I en nasjon som ikke har mange krigshelter å skilte med, er Wallenberg-saken en verkebyll. FOTO: SCANPIX
Svaret på hva som skjedde med Raoul Wallenberg finnes i russiske arkiver. Svenske myndigheter må fortsette å legge press på Moskva, mener forskergruppe.
STOCKHOLM — In neat script, blue ink on white letterhead, Fredrik von Dardel began writing to the stepson he had long been told to leave for dead: “Dear beloved Raoul.”
It was March 24, 1956. He always wrote at his living-room table, his wife, Maria, looking on from a corner of the couch by the phone. On a chest, a spray of flowers she kept fresh stood beside a picture of her son, Raoul Wallenberg.
Dear members of the Petition Committee, For your information, I have been involved in the search for missing Swedish diplomat Raoul G. Wallenberg (1912 – ?) since 1985. I have been supported in the search by the Swedish government. This…
Your Excellency President Obama, Could I kindly ask your assistance in clarifying your government’s position in the case of Raoul Wallenberg, an Honorary Citizen of the USA? (Please see Congressional resolution at the end of this letter) What is of…
Dear Ombudsman, For your information, I have been involved in the search for missing Swedish diplomat Raoul G. Wallenberg (1912 – ?) since 1985. I have been supported in the search by the Swedish government. This support was recognized by…
Could I kindly ask for your assistance, on humanitarian grounds, in clarifying your position on the case of Raoul Wallenberg, Israel’s first Honorary Citizen? (Please see Knesset sub- committee statement at the end of this letter and the reply of…
Your Excellency Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism, Thank you so much for making your statement commemorating Raoul Wallenberg Day. In your statement you wrote: “Raoul Wallenberg was captured by Soviet forces on January 17, 1945. Ten days…