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Marvin Makinen and Ari Kaplan

Professor in Biology (Chicago), for the last 25 years tried to free Raoul Wallenberg and find out what happened to him. He was in the Vladimir prison where he first heard about Raoul Wallenberg. He was also an active member in the Russian-Sweden Working Group.

Testimony from Vladimir prison

During his time in the prison Makinen had shared cell with three other prisoners. One of the coprisoners, Krumich, had told Makinen that a swede had been in the Vladimir prison. According to Krumich’s account he had got in touch…