As we all know, sound decision making depends on good information and in-depth analysis. Unfortunately, over long stretches of time the Raoul Wallenberg investigation has enjoyed neither. The question is: Was the failure to implement a systematic research approach and to correlate important details in any way intentional or simply due to overwhelming Cold War pressures? Or both?
Dear Mr. Bildt, According to newly published administrative records of the former Soviet Ministry of State Security (MGB) in Moscow, four Swedish nationals were held under official MGB investigation in 1948*. Three of them faced charges of espionage. It would…
Your Majesty, King Gustaf XVI, On 17 January 2007, 62 years will have passed since the disappearance of Swedish citizen Raoul Wallenberg, and on July 2007, 60 years will have passed since the “alleged” death of Raoul Wallenberg in Soviet…
We, the former independent consultants to the Swedish-Russian Working Group on the Fate of Raoul Wallenberg (1991-2001), are today releasing an Open Letter to the G8 Summit. The letter has the full support of Raoul Wallenberg’s family and is signed…
“Je suis né à Budapest en 1924. J’ai donc 20 ans lors des événements… J’ai terminé mes études secondaires et m’apprête à entreprendre mes études en médecine. Mais, étant juif, je ne peux aller à l’université. Les Allemands occupent le pays à partir de mars 1944. Budapest compte une très grande communauté juive. Nous sommes tous déplacés vers des maisons portant la grande étoile jaune. Et je suis mobilisé pour les camps de travail. Nous devons porter l’étoile jaune, respecter le couvre-feu, ne pas circuler dans certains parcs et magasins, etc. Moi je travaille au quartier général de Eichmann ! ! !
(Article paru dans le journal du “Cummings Jewish Center for Seniors” de Montréal en mars 2004; c’est Susan elle-même qui a écrit l’article)
Susan is a survivor who has personal recollections of Raoul Wallenberg. She remembers the moment when the young Swede saved her and her family, along with others, from an imminent death march by being shot into the depth of the Danube. She remembers him as Wagner Lohengrin, saving Eisa.
“ Je suis née à Budapest en 1922 de parents Juifs non pratiquant. J’ai même été converti au catholicisme au début des années ‘40 pour échapper éventuellement à la montée du nazisme et de l’antisémitisme.
Jeune, je suis curieuse et désire voyager. Je rêve de vivre un jour aux États-Unis; comme l’Institut Curie de Paris donne une formation en chimie qui garantit un emploi aux USA, je convaincs mes parents d’aller y étudier. C’est pourquoi en 1938 et 1939, je me retrouve en pension à Paris pour y poursuivre des cours à la Sorbonne. Je suivrai finalement des cours d’économie.
February 27 (Itar-Tass) – Representatives of the Romanov House have asked the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office to send to court their appeal about rehabilitation of Russia’s last Tsar Nicholas II and members of his family.
A lawyer of Imperial House head Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, German Lukyanov, told Itar-Tass on Monday that “we have repeatedly sent documents to the Prosecutor General’s office addressed to the Prosecutor General with the request to send the rehabilitation case to court with a summary of the Prosecutor’s Office”.
The lawyer cited an article of the law on rehabilitation of victims of political reprisals, according to which a rehabilitation case, if it is turned down, must be sent for a court review.
New York, February 21, 2006
H.E. Vladimir Putin
President of The Russian Federation
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Dear Mr. President,
My name is Baruch Tenembaum. I am the founder of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, an educational NGO that counts in its Honorary Membership with more than 70 Heads of State, 70 Nobel Prize Laureates, and distinguished personalities of all walks of life such as Mrs. Nina Lagergren, Professor Guy Von Dardel (Raoul Wallenberg’s siblings) and Congressman Tom Lantos. They all accompany us in this singular enterprise that aims at educating the younger generations on the exemplary behavior of the Saviors of the Holocaust.
After giving the matter a lot of thought and meeting with many world leaders and dignitaries I have decided to write you this letter.