'The mystery must be resolved': what befell Swede who saved Hungarian Jews?

Seventy-five years after the amateur Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg embarked on his desperate mission to rescue Budapest’s Jews, his descendants still do not know how, when or why he died. This week, they are travelling to Stockholm to demand the government finally does a bit more to help them find out. “I want specific answers to specific questions,” said Marie von Dardel-Dupuy, the niece of the young architect and businessman whose humanitarian operation is thought to have saved the lives of as many as 30,000 Hungarian Jews as the second world war neared its end. 


Von Dardel-Dupuy, who lives in Switzerland, told the Guardian: “He was a great man who wasn’t afraid to do the impossible. He deserves for us to know what happened to him. His story is unfinished - the mystery must be resolved. There are still so many closed doors, and we must have help in opening them.”
Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg disappeared in 1945 after being summoned to 
Soviet military occupation headquarters in Budapest. Photograph: EPA
No formal, official announcement has ever been made about the fate of Wallenberg, who has become an honorary citizen of four countries and the subject of countless books and films since vanishing in early 1945 into the the Soviet prison system, where he is presumed to have died.Together with historians, the diplomat’s closest family have for decades wrestled with Soviet, and subsequently Russian, authorities, who they are now certain have withheld crucial information and, at times, actively misled researchers....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/23/raoul-wallenberg-family-of-diplomat-who-saved-hungarian-jews


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