Sweden remembers Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg

Švedska se sjeća Raoula Wallenbergu, heroja Holokausta

The European Jewish Press By Camille Bas-Wohlert

Princeza Viktorija i ministar obrazovanja Jan Bjoerklund biti će među poznatim  gostima koji će  u subotu sudjelovati na ceremoniji organiziranoj od "Raoul Wallenberg akademije", u Sigtunu, predgrađu Stockholm. 

Wallenbergova dostignuća u posljednjoj godini II. svjetskog rata priznata su ne samo u Švedskoj, nego i drugdje,   a Kanada, Izrael i  USA su mu dodjelili počasno državljanstvo.

"Raoul Wallenberg se borio protiv jedne diktature u njegovo vrijeme, a ubijen je od druge" rekao je ministar vanjskih poslova  na WEB stranici ,  koja je ustanovljena prilikom stogodišnjice njegova rođenja.

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....Then in June 1944 the War Refugee Board, set up by US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, appointed him to work in the Hungarian capital Budapest, leading a mission to try to save as many Jews as possible.... Wallenberg joined the Swedish delegation in Budapest where, since the spring of 1944, officials had started providing Hungarian Jews threatenedwith deportation to Nazi death camps with "protective" passports...

On January 17, 1945 according to several witnesses, Wallenberg left Budapest headed for the eastern city of Debrecen, where the advancing Soviet forces had already set up their headquarters. It was there that he vanished from view. When the Swedish authorities finally did make inquiries about him, the Soviets said they had arrested him, but did not explain why. Yet Stockholm failed to put pressure on Moscow to obtain his release...

..It was only after the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953 that Stockholm began to press the Soviets for moreinformation about Wallenberg : but in vain."We can’t establish with certainty when Raoul Wallenberg died," diplomat Hans Magnusson, who led a joint Swedish-Russian inquiry into the affair, told AFP. "The Russians say that it was July 17, 1947, but do not rule out that he could have lived longer. Documents have been destroyed," he add.