Press release from the Prime minister’s Office:
02/02/2005 Photo by GPO02
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, at his Knesset office, met with family members of Raoul Wallenberg. Minister Natan Sharansky attended the meeting.Prime Minister Sharon thanked Raoul Wallenberg’s nieces for their uncle’s many efforts to save Diaspora Jews during the Holocaust and commended them for coming to Israel.
(Comments prepared for delivery to the Raoul Wallenberg Symposium, January 18, 2005,
Osgoode Hall, York University, Toronto, Ontario)
by David Matas
The panel I have been asked to moderate is titled “Combatting Racism, Intolerance and Human Rights Violations”. This panel occurs in the context of a symposium titled “Raoul Wallenberg Day International Human Rights Symposium”. The symposium, according to the program, is intended to serve four purposes. One of these is to celebrate Raoul Wallenberg’s extraordinary life and humanitarian contribution. Another is to educate the next generation of Canadian leaders about human rights issues.
Leonid Ragozin writes at BBC News; “In 1998, I spent four days working as a translator for a research group trying to find evidence supporting reports that Wallenberg may have still been alive long after 1947 when, according to the…
Uttalande
Utrikesdepartementet 17 januari 2005
Laila Freivalds, Utrikesminister
Sextio år har idag förflutit sedan den dag, den 17 januari 1945, då Raoul Wallenberg arresterades.
Redan under vårvintern 1944 hade de första provisoriska passen utfärdats av den svenska legationen i Budapest under ledning av Ivan Danielsson och Per Anger. Med Raoul Wallenbergs ankomst till Budapest i juli 1944 intensifierades de svenska räddningsaktionerna.
Exakt hur många judar som kunde räddas undan Förintelsen tack vare den svenska legationens och Raoul Wallenbergs insatser kommer vi antagligen aldrig att få veta. I ett historiskt perspektiv saknar detta dock betydelse. Viktigt att minnas är att här fanns en människa som var beredd att ägna all sin kraft åt – och till sist också fick offra sin frihet för – en stor humanitär gärning. Eller som det i några korta ord har sagts om Raoul Wallenberg: “En enda människa kan göra en skillnad”.
In 1991, at the request of Raoul Wallenberg’s brother, a joint Swedish-Russian Commission was set up to investigate the fate of missing Swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. The commission discovered that 3 Hungarian numbered prisoners secretly held in Vladimir prison, Soviet Union had been…
The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it is the intention here to explain some of the Swedish HUMINT activities during WW2 and especially those related to Hungary. This first section will also include a short discussion of some…
Die Unterschrift … ist wirklich da, ziemlich gut lesbar. R. Wallenberg. Ich habe diesen Namen nie gehort. Und werde vermutlich auch nichts mehr uber ihn horen. Vielleicht werde ich nie erfahren, wer er ist, woher und weshalb er gekommen ist und wie sein Schicksal verlaufen…
from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003
After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen “enemy national” relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.
Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.
Bush’s partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.
The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Governtment Offices of Sweden, 103 33 Stockholm, 08-405 10 00 A printout from www.sweden.gov.se
Press release 04 March 2003
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Today the Commission of inquiry into the actions of the Swedish foreign policy leadership in the Raoul Wallenberg case has presented its report “A failure of diplomacy” (UD 2001:03) to the Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh.
The Commission’s assignment was to investigate and evaluate the actions of the Swedish foreign policy leadership in the Wallenberg case. Its purpose was to clarify whether the leadership of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs had taken advantage of all the opportunities that had emerged over the course of the years to shed light on the fate of Raoul Wallenberg.
Sammanfattning Regeringen bemyndigade genom beslut den 18 oktober 2001 chefen för Utrikesdepartementet att tillkalla en kommission med uppgift att utreda och värdera hur den svenska utrikesledningen har agerat i Wallenbergärendet (dir. 2001:71). Ladda ner Missiv till och med kapitel 5…