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Welcome
to the RWC News room. Here you will find regular updates
on news reporting about Raoul Wallenberg, A STUDY of HEROES,
Awards and Events, and general news regarding the Committee.
We offer downloadable PDFs of previously published printed
news items, newsletters and new press releases.
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more about the work of the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of
the United States, please contact: Diane Blake (917) 606-8260
email: diane@raoulwallenberg.org
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Sweden
to hold new inquiry into Wallenberg death
By BBC - January 18, 2012
Sweden has announced it will hold a new inquiry
into the death of diplomat and Holocaust hero Raoul
Wallenberg after his capture by Soviet forces in 1945.
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt asked officials to look
into whether any new material had emerged that could
shed new light on what happened. The Swedish diplomat
was credited with saving tens of thousands of Hungarian
Jews from the Nazis.
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Wallenberg's
Life-Giving Legacy
By Hillary Rodham Clinton and Carl Bildt
- January 16, 2012
Sweden begins a year-long celebration of the
life of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who
chose not to be indifferent when faced with great
evil...Raoul
Wallenberg’s mission was an example of American-Swedish
cooperation for the common good. His work in Budapest
was partly financed by the United States.
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Raoul
Wallenberg – Sweden's Not-So-Favourite Son
By Susanne Berger - January 2, 2012
The Swedish government has announced that it
will designate 2012 as the official "Raoul Wallenberg
Year" and the honour is more than deserved. Planned
events will highlight the remarkable courage the Swedish
businessman showed when in July 1944, at age thirty-one,
he accepted a diplomatic appointment to go to Budapest,
Hungary to confront the ruthless Nazi death machinery.
By the time of Wallenberg's arrival it had swallowed
up five-hundred thousand Jews of the Hungarian countryside
and the less than two-hundred thousand left in the
capital were about to meet the same fate.
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Russians print new info linked to Raoul Wallenberg
July 31, 2011
Russian archivists have published new material from a German officer imprisoned after World War II who shared a cell with Raoul Wallenberg, the missing Swedish diplomat credited with rescuing tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews. |
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One
Step Closer to the Truth
Raoul Wallenberg
was Prisoner #7! March 31, 2010
Courtesy of Susanne Berger, a former independent
consultant to the Swedish Russian Working Group,
member of the Independent Investigation of Raoul
Wallenberg's fate. Dr. Vadim Birstein is a former
member of the Swedish-Russian Working Group.
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17 Questions Regarding Raoul Wallenberg
submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Russian Federation Moscow by Guy von
Dardel, Susanne Berger, Ari D.
Kaplan, Mawin W. Makinen, & Susan E. Mesinai
(former consultants and members of the
Russian-Swedish Working Group). |
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HEROES
‘Makes A Difference’ at The Western
Pennsylvania School For The Deaf
By
Tina Abraham and Vince Ruscavage, June, 2008
Since 2005,
The Western Pennsylvania School For The Deaf
(Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade) has celebrated
HEROES while developing in its students not
only good character but also academic and communication
skills. Throughout the academic year 2007-2008,
the creativity of the whole school community
flourished as students learned in-depth about
‘respect’ and ‘cooperation’
through the heroic example of Abraham Lincoln
and Mother Teresa.  |
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Remembering Raoul
By
Joshua Prager - Oct 28, 2009
The Swedish physicist Guy von Dardel was
buried last month at age 90 without having
realized the great quest of his life: freeing
Raoul Wallenberg, his older half-brother who
safeguarded some 20,000 Jews from the Nazis
before disappearing into Soviet captivity in
January 1945. |
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The
Wallenberg Curse
by Joshua Prager, February, 2009
"The Search for the Missing Holocaust Hero
Began in 1945. The Unending Quest Tore His Family
Apart". |
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Gunnar
Lagergren: In memorium
January 2009
"The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of
the United States expresses its condolences
to Mrs. Nina Lagergren, sister of Raoul Wallenberg,
on the passing of her beloved husband Gunnar".. |
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Raoul
Wallenberg’s Lost Inheritance
Courtesy of Susanne Berger, November 11,
2008
There has long been speculation about what
Raoul Wallenberg inherited from the estates
of his paternal grandparents, Gustaf and Annie
Wallenberg. Gustaf died in 1937, Annie in 1952.
New documents discovered in Stockholm Stadsarkiv
and described here for the first time, show
that had Raoul returned from his imprisonment
in the Soviet Union, he would have been quite
well off. |
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Why
not a word about Raoul Wallenberg?
By Susanne Berger, October 22, 2008
International journalist, Susanne Berger’s
research addresses the wider political and economic
aspects of Wallenberg's humanitarian mission
to Budapest, as well as their associated effects
on the investigation of his disappearance. For
six years, Susanne served as a consultant to
the Swedish-Russian Working Group on the Fate
of Raoul Wallenberg. |
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The
Three Crowns on Raoul Wallenberg's protective
Passport
By Ben Olander
Ben Olander, a gifted Swedish storyteller
and songwriter, first heard about Raoul Wallenberg
from his Danish grandparents who took an active
part in smuggling Jews and resistance fighters
from Denmark to Sweden during WWII. He has been
a friend of the Committee for many years. While
looking at the design of Raoul's schutzpas,
Ben noticed something odd about the formation
of the Swedish crowns. Here is his story: "The
Mystery of the Swedish Crowns - Wallenberg's
Secret Tribute". |
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Raoul
Wallenberg A STUDY
OF HEROES, General
News
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