The family of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg seeks answers to lingering questions about his fate with a new inquiry in Sweden
Raoul Wallenberg and his company fulfilled an important role in the Swedish official “Economic Defense Readiness” program (Rikskommissionen för Ekonomisk Försvarsberedskap). The fact that the Swedish military and its respective intelligence services oversaw this program may explain the claims that… Read More »Raoul Wallenberg and Mellaneuropeiska — Swedish economic “agents” in World War II
Soviet Prisoner No. 7: The Mysterious Case of Raoul Wallenberg Relatives are still trying to piece together the story of what happened to a Swedish diplomat abducted during World War II. This year researchers might be closer than ever to… Read More »Gaps and questions about the Raoul Wallenberg’s Fate at the Moscow Times
An excellent article about Serov’s Memoir on the historian and scientist’s Vadim Birstein’s website: I have … some doubts in the authenticity of this document [Ivan Serov’s memoir]. It could have been created later, and could have had no relationship to… Read More »Raoul Wallenberg and Ivan Serov’s Memoir “Notes from a Suitcase”
I somras kom en bok ut i Ryssland med sensationella uppgifter om Raoul Wallenbergs död. Det sades vara resultatet av att den tidigare KGB-chefen Ivan Servos dagböcker skulle ha hittats. Men bland ryska forskare är de föregivna memoarernas äkthet omtvistade.… Read More »En bra rysk story – om vi bara kunde lita på den
The Presidential Archive and Its Closed Envelopes In 1990, Russian president Boris Yeltsyn did quite unusual for the Soviet and post-Soviet ruler deed: he admitted the guilt of the Soviet regime. The matter was the massacre of the Polish officers… Read More »Russia and Raoul Wallenberg: Unfinished business
The recently published memoirs of the former KGB Chairman, General Ivan Serov, based on his personal notes and entitled “Notes from a Suitcase: Secret Diaries of the First KGB Chairman, Found Over 25 Years after His Death,” with comments by… Read More »General Ivan Serov’s memoirs
“In the darkest of times, 1944, the 31-year old Raoul Wallenberg was asked to take on a rescue mission in Budapest to save the last remnants of European Jewry. He accepted without hesitation and was attached to the Swedish legation there. He developed… Read More »Statement from RW’s family
January 17 of this year marked the 70th anniversary of the arrest and disappearance of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest, Hungary. The full circumstances of his fate have never been determined. Even though Wallenberg has now been formally declared… Read More »The search for justice continues
70 years after the end of WWII and 70 years after Raoul Wallenberg’s disappearance in the Soviet Union, the full circumstances of his fate remain unknown. To mark this anniversary, an international group of historians and Wallenberg experts have begun… Read More »Fundraising for a Raoul Wallenberg International Roundtable