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November 4, 2016

What Really Happened to Raoul Wallenberg?

Eduardo Eurnekian - Baruch Tenembaum

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To the Editor:

Re “Swedish Diplomat Declared Dead, 71 Years After Vanishing” (news article, Nov. 1):

Despite the wide international repercussion it has elicited, the decision to declare Raoul Wallenberg dead has little value.

This is merely an administrative move after a petition by his living relatives to declare him dead.

The fate of this rescuer of Hungarian Jews in World War II is still shrouded in mystery. The diaries of Ivan A. Serov, the original K.G.B. chief, seem to support the claim that Mr. Wallenberg and his driver, Vilmos Langfelder, were executed under direct orders of Stalin. This may be the case.

The same claim was put forward in 2006 by Alexander Darchiev, then Russia’s deputy ambassador in Washington, in a letter to the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. Mr. Darchiev claimed that “the responsibility for the death of Mr. Wallenberg lies with the U.S.S.R. leadership at that time and Stalin personally.”

The details of the fate of Mr. Wallenberg and Mr. Langfelder are likely buried in the K.G.B. archives.

We call upon President Vladimir V. Putin to provide unfettered access to those archives to shed light on this human tragedy and, if at all possible, to bring the remains of Mr. Wallenberg back home.

EDUARDO EURNEKIAN

BARUCH TENEMBAUM

New York

The writers are, respectively, chairman and founder of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.


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