OFFICIAL: WALLENBERG POSSIBLY OUTLIVED DEATH DATE
Associated Press – MOSCOW (AP) — Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews before vanishing into Soviet captivity, may have been alive after the official 1947 date of his death — but only for a few days, says the chief archivist of Russia’s counterintelligence service.
The disappearance of the 32-year-old Swedish diplomat is an abiding mystery of World War II. His defiance of the Nazis is commemorated worldwide in statues, in streets named for him and in postage stamps bearing his likeness, and to this day inspires scholarly articles, popular books and Hollywood movies.
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PRESS RELEASE – REPLY TO “WALLENBERG POSSIBLY OUTLIVED DEATH DATE” AP ARTICLE
by Dr. Vadim Birstein and
Susanne Berger
Re: Associated Press Article, September 26, 2011 “Wallenberg Possibly Outlived Death Date“ (by Arthur Max and Vladimir Isachenkov)
In the above named article Lt. General Vasily Khristoforov, Chief of the FSB Registration and Archival Collections Directorate, makes several statements we would like to address as follows:
1. It is an undisputed fact that Russian officials have withheld critical information from researchers for decades, including from the Swedish-Russian Working Group that investigated the Raoul Wallenberg case from 1991-2001.
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STORY OF PORTUGUESE RESCUER IN NEW FEATURE FILM SUPPORTED BY THE IRWF
The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation is proud to be one of the Associated Producers of “The Consul of Bordeaux” a feature film that tells the fascinating life story of Portuguese diplomat rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes (July 19, 1885 – April 3, 1954) was the Consul-General of Portugal in Bordeaux, France, during the WWII. In 1940, after the Nazi occupation, he found himself confronted with the reality of unseen numbers of refugees desperate to escape to neutral Portugal.
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In focus: Armenia
ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO TURKEY FOR THE RETURN OF RELIGIOUS PROPERTY
ZENIT, Rome – The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation has welcomed the decision of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to return to religious minorities hundreds of properties confiscated by the Turkish state since 1936. The publication of the decree of restitution of property was announced by the Turkish prime minister on Sunday August 28. The decree provides for the restitution of property to Greco-Orthodox, Armenian, Catholic and Jewish organizations.
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TURKEY SHOULD REMEMBER ITS PAST CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, SCHOLAR SAYS
PanARMENIAN.Net – Taner Akcam, an associate professor of history at Clark University, referred to changes needed in Turkey’s policy to achieve greater regional role.
“Crimes against humanity is a very important international legal norm. As a legal term, it was used for the first time on May 24, 1915 in connection with the Armenian genocide, and it comprised the moral and legal background for the Nuremberg trials as well as the more recent Yugoslavian, Rwandan and other international prosecutions of war crimes. This is common knowledge, but what is not so commonly known is that the expression was first drafted as crimes against Christianity,” prof. Akcam writes in an article published by The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.
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