Seventy years ago this month, as World War II raged, American and Swedish officials came to the aid of the last surviving Jewish community in Europe. The decision to send active assistance to the besieged Jews of Hungary was made…
© C.G.McKay, May, 2014. This essay is made freely available as a contribution to public knowledge. Hermann Grosheim-Krisko was employed as a Russian translator by the Swedish Legation in Budapest in 1944 and given a false identity as the Norwegian , “Henry…
Published at Jerusalem Post, 03/12/2014 My late father, Guy von Dardel, was Raoul’s maternal half-brother and fought for over six decades to learn the full circumstances of Raoul’s disappearance. Raoul Wallenberg Raoul Wallenberg Photo: Reuters In the 1990s, the former…
With globalization and what Willem Blok (2012) has described as the development of a singular international identity and growing joint body of knowledge for social work, there is no better time to reexamine and reevaluate that identity and body of…
The official EU Resolution on its relations with Russia urges Russia to provide access to Russian archives and to solve the RW case: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B7-2014-0150&language=EN 26. Appeals to the Russian authorities to cooperate in opening up Russian archives, enabling access for researchers and declassifying relevant…
His Excellency The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin 23, Ilyinka Street, Moscow 103132 Russia January 27, 2014 Dear Mr. President – On a cold January day in 1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg embarked on a trip…
President Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 USA Cc: Ambassador Mark Brzezinski and Douglas Davidson Dear President Obama, Yesterday my sister-in-law Nina Lagergren and I received President Obama’s response – via Douglas Davidson, U.S. Ambassador for Holocaust affairs…
Dear Mrs. Lagergren and Mrs. von Dardel: Thank you very much for your letter of September 3 to President Obama. The White House has asked that I respond on the President’s behalf. The fundamental issue that you raise in your…
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…