Enforced Labour Battalion No. 701 Following the revolt in October 1944 many Jews were arrested and sent to „Enforced Labour“ contingents, many of which were „protected Jews“. Following protests and efforts from the legation department of the neutral countries, a…
“Shoot The Jewishdog Wallenberg“ Adolf Eichmann became very embittered due to Wallenberg´s activities. Eichmann had never come across such a resistance movement. In the presence of members of the Swedish „Red Cross“, Eichmann threatened the „Jewishdog“ Wallenberg with his life.…
The Rescue Of The “General Ghetto“ By the end of December, Raoul Wallenberg moved into an appartment in Pest. He wished to be closer to the people. To avoid abduction he was permanently on the move. On the 23rd of…
On the 18th of January 1945 the Red Army took Pest and on the 13th of February, Buda was taken. A total of 119.000 Jews were saved due to the efforts made by Wallenberg and other helpers. Criminal-Of-War-Tribunal In court…
Gábor Sztehlo was born in Budapest in 1909. He studied theology in the sopron. Time spent in Finland and Bethel influenced Sztehlo greatly. From 1932 he was chaplain in Budapest, then in Hatwan and Nagytarcsa. In 1936 Sztehlo was a priest in Nagytarsca and there 1937 he grounded the first Hungarian Adult Education Centre. A few years later he returned to Budapest as a young priest. In March 1944 following German occupation he carried out his priestly duties in old people´s homes.
Ernö Szep sensed personally the immediate results following the occupation. He had to vacate his appartment to make room for German officers. Szép was born in Eastern Hungary in Huszt in 1884. His first volume of poetry books were published in 1902. He was 19 years old when he became a journalist in Budapest. Through his poems, short stories and novels he became popular. Some of his works were also published in Germany. All of this could not exempt him from the anti-Jewish measures.
On the 13th of January 1945 the Russians arrived,Wallenberg was in the Red Cross building inBenczur street. He was anxious to meet the commander of the Red Army and temporary government in Debrecen. He wished to introduce his help plans…
Searching For Wallenberg Wallenbergs relatives, the von Dardel family, went to great trouble to find out about his fate. The Swedish government requested that the Soviet Union release any information concerning Wallenberg. The Soviet Union released the statement, Wallenberg was…
Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (1912-?) Swedish business man and diplomat.
The question of what exactly happened to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg after his 1945 disappearance in the Soviet Union remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of the Cold War period.
In July 1944, Wallenberg was selected to go to Budapest to help protect the local Jewish population from fierce Nazi persecution. His humanitarian mission was supported and financed by the U.S. War Refugee Board and other entities, including the American Joint Distribution Committee.
Wallenbergärendet – liksom IB-affären – kom att förfölja de socialdemokratiska regeringarna decennium efter decennium. För att kunna sätta punkt för dessa båda ”affärer” tillsattes två kommis- sioner. I Wallenbergfallet erhöll kommis- sionen namnet. ”Kommissionen om den svenska utrikesledningens agerande i…