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The Wallenberg Curse

    STOCKHOLM — In neat script, blue ink on white letterhead, Fredrik von Dardel began writing to the stepson he had long been told to leave for dead: “Dear beloved Raoul.”

    It was March 24, 1956. He always wrote at his living-room table, his wife, Maria, looking on from a corner of the couch by the phone. On a chest, a spray of flowers she kept fresh stood beside a picture of her son, Raoul Wallenberg.

    Inquiry requested by the German Petition Committee of the German Parliament regarding the Handling of the Raoul Wallenberg Case

      Dear members of the Petition Committee, For your information, I have been involved in the search for missing Swedish diplomat Raoul G. Wallenberg (1912 – ?) since 1985. I have been supported in the search by the Swedish government. This… 

      Letter to President Peres

        Could I kindly ask for your assistance, on humanitarian grounds, in clarifying your position on the case of Raoul Wallenberg, Israel’s first Honorary Citizen? (Please see Knesset sub- committee statement at the end of this letter and the reply of… 

        Open letter to Dr. Vasily S. Khristoforov Director, FSB Archives Directorate Federal Security

          Dr. Vasily S. Khristoforov Director, FSB Archives Directorate

          Federal Security Service

          Bolshoi Lubyanka Street, House 2 Moscow, Russia 101000

          In re: Your article about Raoul Wallenberg in “Vremya” of January 19, 2009

          Dear Vasily Stepanovich,

          All of us, as former members and consultants to the Russian-Swedish Working Group, were very pleased to read your thorough and very interesting article about the many puzzling questions that still remain in the case of the missing Swedish diplomat Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg. We believe your outline of some of the key issues that remain unresolved will help researchers such as ourselves to formulate incisive questions that can be followed up further in Russian archives. We welcome your article also because it provides an opportunity for a more direct exchange of views.

          One of the central problems in establishing all the facts of Wallenberg’s imprisonment in the Soviet Union, including the main question ‘What happened to him?’ once his trail breaks off in the Spring of 1947, is, as you stress, the problem of missing documents. But your article also helps us to identify areas of research where progress may well be possible.