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…
Google traduction from the german version He was nine years old when his father disappeared for months in 1953 in the torture chambers of the Hungarian State Security: But Tams Szab never learned why. After the fall of the Iron Curtain in…
5659 Katyn – a double game of the Kremlin 70 years ago the world learned the truth about the terrible tragedy of Smolensk, but so far out of it trying to make a secret. Katyn April 13, 1943 German…
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:…
FSB and the Supreme Court ignored the order of their declassification (Google traduction) The Constitutional Court (CC) has published a decision on the appeal of the historian Nikita Petrov, which should ensure the access of citizens to the most socially…
A new Canadian Raoul Wallenberg stamp has been delivered with a 1944 Raoul Wallenberg passport photo. The stamp includes an image from the Schutz-Pass, a protective pass, which Raoul Wallenberg handed out to people in the Jewish communit. Steven Fletcher Canadian…