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On the occasion of U.S. President Obama’s official visit to Stockholm, Sweden on September 3, 2013, the members of Raoul Wallenberg’s immediate family gave him an open letter.

The fact that Wallenberg’s fate is still shrouded in mystery is the direct responsibility of the Russian authorities. Sweden has instituted an official Raoul Wallenberg Day, which will be commemorated every August 27, starting this year. To be sure, this… 

For many years now, I have been dealing with different Israeli government representatives in order to request assistance in the search for Raoul Wallenberg. A Swedish diplomat, Wallenberg saved tens of thousands of Jewish persons during the Holocaust in Budapest.… 

Susanne Berger and Vadim Birstein write: “For a variety of reasons, the Swedish organizers decided to focus attention entirely on highlighting Wallenberg’s legacy, excluding almost completely the question of his fate. As a result, many observers feel that Sweden once again missed a golden opportunity to press the Russian authorities for answers. The approach was also troubling because it signaled… 

Russian officials have argued for decades that because Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was never formally charged with a crime while in Soviet captivity, no investigation file would have been created for him.  This claim is simply untrue, as newly released documents… 

A few weeks ago, Russia’s Constitutional Court ruled that the 30 year secrecy rule governing the classification of important historical records had expired in most cases and that researchers should be granted access to these collections. While the ruling allows… 

Ann Weiszmann has a fascination for Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat credited with saving tens of thousands of Jewish lives in Nazi-occupied Hungary by issuing them bogus Swedish identity papers, or “shutz-passes.” Ms. Weiszmann’s interest in the man is understandable:…