Planned events will highlight the remarkable courage the Swedish businessman showed when in July 1944, at age thirty-one, he accepted a diplomatic appointment to go to Budapest, Hungary to confront the ruthless Nazi death machinery. By the time of Wallenberg’s arrival…
Whoever saves one life – saves the world entire.
Talmud
The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) rightly said in his memoirs that Raoul Wallenberg “is one of those people who make not just all of Sweden but all of humanity proud” (1) . As long as Judeo-Christian civilization continues to exist, his fate is sure to move people, for he was one of its most praiseworthy examples that has lived among us. Humanity’s greatest good always begins with the ability to do good on behalf of other people. In saving the lives of the Hungarian Jews, Wallenberg made his own contribution to the development of all Western Civilization. It is apparent that through his acts of self-sacrifice over the course of several months in 1944, he fathered the standard of our attitude to human dignity which was subsequently laid down in perpetuity as the foundation of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For this reason, this article is dedicated to the sacred memory of a saint of many nations, Raoul Wallenberg (1912 – ?).
As is well documented, in the period from 1933 to 1945, some 6,000,000 Jews were exterminated in Europe by the combined forces of Nazi Germany, their allies, and in addition their collaborators in occupied countries (2). Such ruthless mass murder of Jews while the entire world looked on was to become the single most unmitigated catastrophe in the history of the Jewish people.
År 1961 Den 2 januari I Aftonbladets nummer för idag har Philipp på synlig plats fått en artikel med rubriken: “Arbetet för Raouls återfinnande i Sovjet Unionen fortsätter, ” vari han omnämner att den sovjetiska uppgiften om Raouls död, som…
Russische Staatsanwaltschaft argumentiert mit Verstößen gegen das Persönlichkeitsrecht Moskau – Wegen seiner Forschungsarbeit über das Schicksal von Russland-Deutschen unter Sowjetdiktator Josef Stalin hat die russische Staatsanwaltschaft eine Verurteilung des Historikers Michail Suprun gefordert. Der Wissenschaftler habe mit seiner Datensammlung für…
Utrikesdepartementet är en politiskt styrd organisation och i sådana finns det litet eller inget utrymme för medmänsklig storslagenhet. Raoul Wallenbergs öde är tyvärr ett skolexempel på den ständiga bristen på civilkurage. Det skriver Mats Lewicki, sekreterare vid Raoul Wallenberg Academy. OM…
Vi behöver inte fler minnesplaketter och pliktskyldiga bedyranden om Sveriges försummelse under Raoul Wallenberg-året. En tecknad serie skulle däremot kunna nå en yngre publik, skriver Tanja Schult, författare till A Hero’s Many Faces. Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments. OM FÖRFATTAREN Tanja Schult…
1958 : Den 20 februari: i går kom propositionen om den förlängda preskriptionstiden upp i båda kamrarna. Ehuru det var all anledning att antaga att förslaget skulle gå igenom utan debatt hade vi ledsamma erfarenheter av tidigare bakslag att vi insåg…
Next year marks the 100th birthday of one of the 20th century’s most admired figures: Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews from Nazi persecution in World War II Hungary only to be swallowed up himself in 1945 by Stalin’s Gulag. Although Soviet leaders claimed in 1957 that Wallenberg had died suddenly in the Lubyanka prison on July 17, 1947, the full circumstances of his fate in Soviet captivity have never been established.
In a recent interview with The Associated Press, the current chief of the Federal Security Service’s registration and archives directorate, Lieutenant General Vasily Khristoforov, emphasized that he, too, considers Wallenberg a hero and that FSB officials are doing everything to uncover more documentation. He strongly denied withholding any information that would shed light on the truth.
Yet it is indisputable that Russian officials for decades chose to mislead not only the general public but also an official Swedish-Russian Working Group that investigated the case from 1991-2001. This group included official Swedish representatives as well as Raoul Wallenberg’s brother, Guy von Dardel. Russia did not merely obscure inconsequential details of the case but also failed to provide documentation that goes to the very heart of the Wallenberg inquiry.
Chief among these are copies of the Lubyanka prison register from July 23, 1947. They show that a “Prisoner No. 7” was questioned on that day, six days after Wallenberg’s alleged death. Russian officials have since acknowledged that “Prisoner No. 7” almost certainly was Wallenberg. Researchers have yet to receive a copy of the full page of this Lubyanka interrogation register, in uncensored form, showing the complete list of interrogated prisoners and other details.
Now that researchers have shown in two proven instances that Russia for many decades has deliberately withheld key information in the Raoul Wallenberg case, where does that leave the investigation of his fate? For as yet unexplained reasons, Russian officials…
1955 “Den 14 januari: Sedan Svenska Dagbladet infört en notis om att Sovjet ämnade inbjuda den svenska riksdagens ledamöter till ett besök i Ryssland, har Dagens Nyheter i en ledare framhållit, att ett sån’t besök borde inte äga rum om…