WI-70                                                      Press Release                                         January 27, 2020


75 years ago, Raoul Wallenberg disappeared in the Soviet Union. Soviet and later Russian officials repeatedly lied about relevant aspects of his case. Russian authorities today continue to refuse access to key documentation found in Russian archives. As emerged recently, Swedish authorities, too, have withheld important information. Wallenberg's family, researchers and members of the public turn today with an Open Letter to Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ann Linde, urging her to use all means at her disposal to establish the full circumstances of Raoul Wallenberg's fate. 


"It is time that the world finally learned what exactly happened to a man who is rightfully recognized as a true hero of the resistance against the Holocaust, one of the greatest crimes in the history of humanity."


#WeRemember     The deportation of Jews from Hungary and Lodz to Auschwitz Birkenau

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Interview with John Pehle   U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and the first director of the US War Refugeed Board, on the failure of the Allies to bomb Auschwitz. In January 1944, Pehle co-authored the seminal Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews  Watch also the award winning short documentary about Josiah E. DuBois Jr., the report's main author. The documentary was created by the students of Rosa International Middle School in New Jersey in 2017. 



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