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  • Facing Atrocities in Neighboring Syria, Where Is Israel’s Raoul Wallenberg?

    The memory of the Holocaust and the silent world didn’t prick the consciences of Israelis when mass killings were reported in faraway lands. Syria is different. While reading and thinking about the Holocaust, I often wonder about those who stood by and continued living their normal lives while the Jews of Europe were being led […]

  • Letters to the Editor: Raoul Wallenberg

    Speaking of Wallenberg Aluf Benn’s opinion column “Facing Atrocities in Neighboring Syria, Where Is Israel’s Raoul Wallenberg?” (Dec.15 2016) is indeed timely since in October the Swedish diplomat, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from being killed by the Nazis, was formally declared dead, 71 years after he disappeared in Hungary in the closing months […]

  • Why Didn’t the Swedes Mobilize to Save Holocaust Hero Raoul Wallenberg?

    The very belated confirmation of the death of the Swedish diplomat raises new questions about economic and political interests – of the Swedish government and of his family – that may explain why the affair was not settled 70 years ago. A few weeks ago, the death was announced in Sweden of a person who […]

  • Raoul Wallenberg’s Journey From Grocery Salesman to Holocaust Hero

    Ingrid Carlberg’s richly detailed ‘Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography’ presents fresh facts about the Swede who saved so many Jews, but is unable to answer the gnawing question surrounding his fate in Soviet custody. “Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography,” by Ingrid Carlberg, MacLehose Press, 640 pp., $29.99 Two great mysteries surround the life of famed Holocaust figure […]

  • Is the Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg’s Death Finally Solved?

    Newly published diaries of the first KGB chief state that the Swedish diplomat was liquidated on Stalin’s orders in a Soviet prison in 1947 The mystery surrounding the disappearance and death of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, has returned to the headlines with the […]

  • Roman Hospital Awarded for Inventing an ‘Infectious Disease’ to Save Jews During WWII

    Dozens of healthy young Jews were hospitalized with the fictitious ‘K syndrome’ in isolated ward to protect them from Nazis. Between September 1943 and June 1944, coinciding with the Nazi occupation of the city, Rome was struck by a mysterious epidemic. A previously unknown and highly contagious disease, the “K syndrome,” forced a local hospital […]