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| 145.1 | New details in a BudaPest newspaper | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Mon Apr 13 1987 11:26 | 68 |
| Associated Press Sat 11-APR-1987 16:29 Wallenberg
Hungarian Daily Carries New Details About Missing Swedish Diplomat
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - A government daily broke virtual official
silence on Raoul Wallenberg Saturday to report that the Swedish
diplomat, who vanished after saving many thousands of Hungarian Jews,
died in a Moscow jail in 1947. The Magyar Hirlap newspaper said in a
full-page article that Wallenberg died in Moscow's infamous Lyubianka
Prison "as a victim of (Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's) personality
cult."
Wallenberg disappeared in 1945. A secretary in the Swedish Embassy in
Budapest, he is credited with saving 100,000 Hungarian Jews from Nazi
deportation and extermination by providing them with Swedish
immigration permits. Sweden sent him to aid Nazi victims late in World
War II.
Wallenberg was taken prisoner by Soviet forces in Hungary. In 1957, the
Soviets said he had died of a heart attack 10 years earlier, but rumors
persisted long afterward that he was still alive.
Magyar Hirlap said Wallenberg regularly visited Hungary from 1938 on,
and that he started his humanitarian efforts in 1941, not 1944, when he
began work at the embassy. The daily also published what appeared to be
new details about the disappearance of Wallenberg, based on an
interview with Laszlo Hertelendy, a member of a well-known Hungarian
family. The newspaper said Hertelendy was the last man to see the
diplomat before he vanished from Hungary.
The article said that according to the only authentic document on his
case, "Wallenberg died in Moscow's Lyubianka prison in 1947, as a
victim of (Stalin's) personality cult. "This likelihood was officially
communicated by the Soviet Union to the Swedish government after the
Soviet Communist Party's 20th Congress," in 1956, said the paper.
Magyar Hirlap did not say what the document was or where it was found.
Soviet leaders use the terms "personality cult" to denounce Stalin's
harsh rule. The article quoted Hertelendy as saying Wallenberg started
giving support to Jews in 1941 through a priest, Dr. Imre Szabo.
Wallenberg also tried to intervene in 1942 on behalf of Zoltan
Schoenherz, a Communist sentenced to death by a military court on a
charge of high treason, the newspaper said. Wallenberg's efforts were
in vain, said Hertelendy in the interview.
Hertelendy disputed an account in a Hungarian book that said he last
saw Wallenberg on Jan. 12, 1945. "I last met him (Wallenberg) on Feb.
12 at the Krisztina Church's parish office," he said. "In fact, Feb. 12
was the day when the first Soviet patrols appeared in the region of the
Krisztina Church ... physically he (Wallenberg) was not in bad
condition but looked most dejected."
After the Nazi troops left, "his proteges (Jews) were no longer gravely
threatened. Yet he gave the impression of a man whose spirit was broken
and in a state of (spiritual) collapse," recalled Hertelendy in the
article. "When we asked him what was wrong with him, he said, `This is
not the way I thought things would be like.' Perhaps he had an illusion
that the Soviets would deal with him as a very important man ... He
said, `Perhaps tomorrow it will be me asking you to help me ...'"
Hertelendy said Wallenberg hid in the church's boiler room to avoid an
identify check by Soviet troops, "and even told me not to go for the
card check either." "More troops came into the building later on, and
Wallenberg said, `Goodbye ... I will be showing up again.' But he never
did," he said.
Hungary erected a statue to Wallenberg in 1948, but it was removed on
the eve of its unveiling. A new monument is planned.
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| 145.2 | Death blamed on head of Soviet military secret police | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Mon May 11 1987 12:21 | 39 |
| Associated Press Sun 10-MAY-1987 01:15 Hungary-Wallenberg
Government Daily Tells Wallenberg Story
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg died in a
Moscow prison in 1947 after the Soviets unjustly jailed him, a
government newspaper said Saturday in Hungary's first detailed account
of his 1945 disappearance. Wallenberg is credited with saving thousands
of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War II.
The Kremlin said in 1957 that he died in Moscow's Lyubyanka jail 10
years earlier. But Wallenberg's family and others in the West have
disputed that account, citing several claims by former Soviet prisoners
that they saw Wallenberg much later. Magyar Hirlap, the Hungarian
government daily, blamed Lt. Gen. Viktor S. Abakumov, head of the
Soviet military's secret police from 1942 to March 1946, for keeping
Wallenberg in jail.
Citing a Soviet memorandum to Sweden in 1957, the newspaper also
criticized unidentified leaders of Kremlin security services for
misleading Soviet diplomats about the case for years afterwards. The
newspaper praised Wallenberg for saving Jews by giving them Swedish
passports to protect them from deportation. It said the time had come
to set the record straight about his death.
Magyar Hirlap said Wallenberg, 34, died in a Moscow prison cell in July
1947 of an apparent heart attack. "Wallenberg was taken into custody
(in Budapest) ... by Soviet troops in an area which was the scene of
war operations," Magyar Hirlap said. "There can be no doubt that
Abakumov committed a criminal act by keeping Wallenberg in prison in
the subsequent period," it said.
Magyar Hirlap said it got Kremlin clearance to publish the article.
Budapest authorities recently put up a statue of the Swedish diplomat
and will formally dedicate it in mid-May. The newspaper quoted Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev as saying that "in history and literature,
there must be no `forgotten names' and `blank spots."' Gorbachev has
been campaigning in the Soviet Union for "glasnost," or openness, and
encouraging limited political reforms.
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| 145.3 | Raoul Wallenberg | STKEIS::BYSTAM | Stefan Bystam, IS/Software Support @SOO | Wed Jul 01 1987 20:07 | 7 |
| A "funny" thing about this matter is that a lot of people in Sweden
has tried to get a road or something named after Raoul Wallenberg
but there is a sort of strange "convention" in Sweden that a person
can not have a road or street named after him if he is'nt dead and
in the case of Raoul Sweden still hopes that he is alive.
Stefan
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| 145.4 | Film about Raoul Wallenberg | STKEIS::BYSTAM | Stefan Bystam, IS/Software Support @SOO | Wed Jul 01 1987 20:10 | 6 |
| By the way have you folks out there seen the TV film about Raoul
Wallenberg. Even though it was recorded in the US i think it was
rather well informed about all the facts which is not allways the
case.
Stefan
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| 145.5 | Wallenberg TV film | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Thu Jul 02 1987 11:16 | 7 |
| Re: .4:
Stefan,
Is that the film where Richard Chamberland (spelling off?, I mean
the same as starred in "Thorn Birds") played Wallenberg? If so,
I watched it and enjoyed it.
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| 145.6 | Tv film | STKEIS::BYSTAM | Stefan Bystam, IS/Software Support @SOO | Thu Jul 02 1987 17:06 | 5 |
| > Is that the film where Richard Chamberland (spelling off?, I mean
> the same as starred in "Thorn Birds") played Wallenberg? If so,
> I watched it and enjoyed it.
Yes thats the one i meant.
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| 145.7 | More documents | TLE::SAVAGE | | Wed Sep 11 1991 17:29 | 38 |
| From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.politics.people,
clari.news.hot.east_europe,clari.news.hot.ussr,clari.news.trouble,
clari.news.europe
Subject: New documents on Wallenberg case
Date: 4 Sep 91 20:20:40 GMT
MOSCOW (UPI) -- New KGB chief Vadim Bakatin gave the Swedish
ambassador and Raoul Wallenberg's half brother five new documents
Wednesday concerning the fate of the Swedish diplomat who disappeared in
Soviet custody after World War II.
Bakatin, a moderate charged with reforming the KGB in the aftermath
of last month's failed coup, met Wednesday evening with Swedish
Ambassador Orjan Berner, First Secretary Hans Magnussen and Guy von
Dardel, the half brother of Wallenberg who has been investigating his
case since he disappeared after saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from
the Nazis.
The Soviet news agency Tass said Bakatin turned over "five hitherto
unknown documents from the Soviet State Security Committee's archives"
on Wallenberg, but it did not give details on what the papers contained.
Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviets when they entered Budapest at
the end of World War II, and Soviet authorities reported in 1947 that he
died in prison but his death has never been verified.
"With the changes in the KGB, if there is ever a time to find
something new this might be it," said a Western diplomat in Moscow who
has been following the Wallenberg investigation.
The archives turned over by Bakatin Wednesday were apparently
separate from documents that came to the attention of Swedish Prime
Minister Tage Erlander in the 1950s and which were eventually shown to
the Wallenberg family and Swedish government at the beginning of last
year.
Those documents suggested that Wallenberg died soon after his arrest.
Every official Swedish delegation to Moscow over the past two years
has made the Wallenberg case a central part of talks, but they have
always received the same answer that he died shortly after being
arrested, along with promises of further investigation to determine the
exact circumstances of his death.
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| 145.8 | In search of the truth. | SIOG::BAUM | | Wed Feb 15 1995 04:38 | 21 |
| Hi,
I have always been interested in the story of Raoul Wallenberg, and
have done alot of reserach on the man. To date I have writen to the
Swedish Wallenberg Association in Sweden, Swedish Embassy in Ireland,
and various others. However since about 92-93 any new information on
the case is very hard to get, even from Sweden.
At present I have a small display of articles and letters in the Jewish
Muesum in Dublin, Ireland but would like to gather any new information.
I hope to present a proper display on Raoul in the near future in the
muesum.
If you have any new details on Raoul, or activities that have taken
place since 92 I would most appreicate hearing from you. If you do not
have any new information, but know where I may get some, I would like
to hear from you.
I thank you for your time in this matter.
Heath.
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