Raoul Wallenberg - a Swedish diplomat who in 1944 saved thousands of Hungarian Jews [Raul Gustav Wallenberg (1912 -? 1947) was born on August 5, 1912 in Stockholm, in one of the wealthiest and most prominent families in Sweden. In July 1944, Wallenberg was appointed First Secretary of the Swedish representation in Budapest.

Using diplomatic status, he gave many Jews Swedish passports. He also managed to convince some of the German generals to carry out Hitler's orders on the removal of Jews to the death camps and to prevent in the last days before the advent of the Soviet Army's destruction of the Budapest ghetto, where at the time of the arrival of Soviet troops were 97 thousand Jews.

A total of 800,000 Jews living in Hungary before the war, survived 204 thousand. Not less than 100 thousand of them owe their salvation Raoul Wallenberg. ] From destruction in the German death camps and the hands of the Hungarian salashistov.

In January 1945, on his way to a meeting with the commander of the Soviet troops, he was arrested in Budapest by the Soviet soldiers, and on the orders of senior Soviet leaders sent to Moscow, where - according to the official version of the Soviet government and Soviet officials (Molotov, Vyshinsky, Gromyko and many other) - died in Lubyanka prison in July 1947 and, moreover, was neither tried nor convicted.

(According to the Commission for the rehabilitation of victims of political repression under the President of the Russian Federation (AN Yakovlev Commission) in the KGB Wallenberg including "Jew henchman from Sweden," he kept for a long time without success for a profitable exchange, and then in 1947 (?) Shot, destroying documents.)

The memory of Wallenberg


For services to humanity Wallenberg put monuments in many cities around the world. In Moscow, a monument was erected in the courtyard of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. MI Rudomino. In honor of him called:

- Streets in many cities of the State of Israel

- Institute of Special Pedagogy and Psychology ISPiP in St. Petersburg

- Children's fund them. Raoul Wallenberg, Stockholm, Sweden

How he lived, and where he died?

How he lived, and where he died or was killed. The riddle of death of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg remains neproyasnonnoy so far. But the February 7, 1957 - the date when it was officially announced his death in Lubyanka prison.

The scion of a wealthy Swedish family, Raoul Wallenberg was born in 1912 in Stockholm. The father, a naval officer, died before his son's birth. I raised in a family-diplomat grandfather, who worked in Japan, China, and Turkey. He arrived in the summer of 1944 in Hungary in cases of export-import company. Armed with a diplomatic passport, Wallenberg acted in the rank of attaché of the Swedish Embassy in Budapest. Its mission was defined as: "to examine the situation of Hungarian Jews and other minorities, and to report it."

Why Wallenberg undertook his last mission? Maybe because he had spent the pre-war years in Palestine, where he worked at the Dutch office of the bank, and then traveled around Europe and saw something in that until 1944 it was convenient not believe Roosevelt and Churchill, who knew everything about the camps death and gas chambers. But be that as it may, the Refugee Council, which was to assist Jews and other victims of Nazism, was established only in 1944. Roosevelt probably I realized that the "final solution of the Jewish question" is in full swing and that his government, as well as the British government will not be able to justify inaction. Asked why Wallenberg was the protagonist of the organization in Budapest, should be sought not in Russian, and American archives.

Wallenberg commission was given by the Swedish government, which, in turn, acted on the request of the other applicants, concerned about the situation of the Jews of Budapest, including - the World Jewish Congress. After Hitler learned of Horthy's attempts to make a separate peace with the Allies, Hungary was occupied by the German Wehrmacht. In March 1944, the power in the country passed into the hands of the SS and the Gestapo. Adolf Eichmann is organizing the deportation of Hungarian Jews to extermination camps. By the time of arrival in Budapest Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary to the death camps were located in Poland, dozens of trains already exported 437,000 Jews. The goal of Raoul Wallenberg - to save as many as possible of the remaining live until 200 thousand Hungarian Jews.

The method of delivery of salvation of the elect Jews of Swedish citizenship certificates. The war drew to a close, the car extermination of Jews working at full speed. The closer the Soviet tanks, the fiercely passed the "final solution of the Jewish question." Wallenberg and his driver sometimes managed to confuse the head officers who accompanied the trains already seemingly doomed people. For example, in the Swedish film reconstructs the scene in which with the help of five passports Wallenberg and his driver managed to take the train 52 people.

?.?..! "How many of us passports five five and 52 people If this fails to crank immediately, everything loses meaning This - the working team for the repair of the Swedish and Spanish embassies have all available Swedish passports: Fisher Here Singer Here!!! ! ".

To achieve its goal, Raoul Wallenberg uses family ties, especially those of its members who keep contacts with National Socialist Germany. Uncle Raoul Wallenberg, Jacob Wallenberg is the business partner of German arms manufacturers. Germans older Wallenberg deliver steel. Tips - Ball. On the connections Wallenberg is well known and Soviet intelligence. Nephew is under double pressure.

Wallenberg in Budapest bought the house and declared them the property of the Swedish mission. In these houses settled thousands of Jews, he straightens the safe conduct of the Swedish mission.

"Now they will come, but you have nothing to fear Everyone here has a Swedish passport at all -. Swedish passports".

The Swedish mission began helping Jews before the arrival of Wallenberg - immediately after the occupation of Hungary by the Germans. But Wallenberg came up with the document itself, which had the name of saving Schutz-Pass, it has a magical effect on the officers and soldiers of the Wehrmacht. Yellow-blue paper with three crowns, drawn up in the German and Hungarian languages and multiple bonded seals, null and void and had still acted.

This fact - evidence against the most unpleasant of all those who refused during the war to help the refugees - not just Jews and Gypsies, who was waiting for death with absolute probability. If one person ridiculous and the staff of the Swedish mission could as soon as possible to save the lives of tens of thousands of people, then that could be taken to countries such as Switzerland or the United Kingdom?

January 16, 1945, the Swedish government was informed that Wallenberg in Budapest under Soviet administration protection. The next day he was transported to the location of the headquarters of the Soviet troops. It was the last day that Wallenberg and Vilmos Langfeldera seen at large. Wallenberg was transported to Moscow.

12 years after the war, February 7, 1957, the then Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko, officially notifies the Swedish ambassador in Moscow that Raoul Wallenberg died in prison of a heart attack MGB. However, no evidence of this has not been given.

After restructuring talking millions silent. And some of the few people who knew more than others, have written memoirs. So, in his memoirs, Sergo Beria, Lavrenty Beria's son, we read:

"Among the" white spots "the history of special services and the mysterious fate of Raoul Wallenberg. A few years ago, a former KGB resident in India claimed that Wallenberg was a mediator in the secret negotiations between Lavrenty Beria and the head of the SS Heinrich Himmler in 1944. Other sources claim that Soviet security organs attempted to recruit Wallenberg, and when that failed, shot ... Wallenberg, I know, has been linked with the Americans, and all his actions were held in Budapest at the direction of and with the knowledge of the United States. He really did a lot for the salvation of men. But nothing to do with the Soviet intelligence service, he never had, not to mention the fact that no negotiations between Himmler and my father or anyone else from the representatives of the USSR never took place. This statement is absolutely absurd, though, I know, in the Soviet press about mythical the talks in recent years, much has been written. Captured Raoul Wallenberg "SMERSH", which was then headed by Abakumov. then the arrested diplomat handed security forces. My father is no relation to the fate of Wallenberg never had, and I certainly do not know what happened to that person in the territory of the USSR. "

As can be seen, memoirist interest here is that the murder of Wallenberg is not attributed to the father - Lavrenty Beria.

In 1991 it was created the Russian-Swedish commission of inquiry into the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. In January 1993, the Swedish newspaper published a photocopy of the order of People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR Nikolai Bulganin commander of the Second Ukrainian Front Rodion Malinovsky on the arrest of Raoul Wallenberg and his transportation to Moscow. Officials of the USSR and Russia repeated for decades:

"To establish the circumstances of the arrest and detention of Wallenberg and Langfeldera during the inspection of all available archival holdings was not possible. The actual circumstances of their deaths, the availability of the materials of the criminal case, the personal files of arrested or cases of prisoners of war could not be found."

It is therefore of great interest are the memoirs of Paul Sudoplatova security officer, recounts the actions of units, which he led, including committed by him personally or by his order the killings. According to Sudoplatova,

"... Wallenberg are being ground reconnaissance and penal system in the worst possible time, when the system is readjusted to a new enemy №1 Until 1945, it was Hitler's Germany, and from 1946 -. America and Britain fearless man who had certainly all views. to become the West a significant political figure, Wallenberg a minute would not silent about the witness what he was in Budapest and Moscow. that's why he was in the skilful hands of Toxicology laboratory, X, led by professor Mayranovskiy, where he is likely It was made lethal injection, which caused a heart attack. "

The proposed Sudoplatov version explains why Wallenberg was killed. But it does not explain why so many decades to conceal this fact.

In 1989, the Soviet Government has invited members of the family Wallenberg to Moscow, in order to give them the rest of their relative items: passport, notebook, money and cigarette case. It was an invitation to believe and remember forever.

But the December 22, 2000 Russian Prosecutor General's Office was back to business and rehabilitated Raoul Wallenberg. In January 2001, the Russian Prosecutor General officially handed over documents on the rehabilitation of Wallenberg after Sweden and Hungary.

No matter how this looks tragicomic rehabilitation, she does not calm down, first of all, the people saved by Raoul Wallenberg. Hundreds of thousands still live witnesses keep a grateful memory of him.

Became a symbol of the fight against Holocaust

... The destiny of man, whose name has become a symbol of the fight against Holocaust and remains unclear until the end, although numerous investigations have helped to partially restore the chain of events that push and test different versions. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg made a great contribution to the rescue of Jews from the Nazi death camps by issuing documents on behalf of his country - the Nazis did not touch the newly Swedes. To spoil relations with a neutral neighbor they did not want, the more aware that Raoul Wallenberg belongs to the rich financial-industrial family in Sweden, which were active in the trade. So that the name of Raoul Wallenberg defended no less, and perhaps more reliable than the Swedish citizenship and diplomatic status.

... Wallenberg disappeared in Budapest after the city was liberated by Soviet troops in the spring of 1945. Initially, the Soviet Union claimed that about Raoul Wallenberg did not know anything, it was later recognized that the Swedish diplomat was arrested and secretly taken to Moscow, where he died. The commission's report is called final, although he could not give a definite answer, but only allowed to clarify a number of issues.

... At the beginning of January 2001 the largest Swedish newspaper "Aftonbladet" wrote about the new materials, which are available to the Russian-Swedish Commission of Inquiry into the death of diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. The newspaper reported that, according to committee members, Wallenberg was arrested in 1945, the Soviet counterintelligence to make a return for Soviet citizens defectors. We already know the names of these people - Lydia Makarova and Anatoly Granovsky. Sweden is, as it follows from this, I did not want to trade on the Russian Wallenberg.

... Swedish newspapers are now asking the question: why the Swedish government has decided to donate his diplomat? After aggressively pursue investigation into Wallenberg began later, causing that the Soviet Union long lasting political damage. Now, from the archival documents it is known that the CPSU Central Committee and the Politburo had to repeatedly come back to this issue in deciding what and how to lie. History professor Alf Johansson believes that one of the reasons for the reluctance of the Swedish Raoul Wallenberg exchange on Russian was preparing an important agreement with the Soviet Union to grant trade credit to a billion Swedish kronor. In the conclusion of this contract we were interested not only Soviet diplomats, but also the Swedish industrialists, fearing the onset of post-war Europe, the deepest depression. Agreement appearing in Swedish history under the name "RUSSIAN AGREEMENT", was signed in 1946. However, given that the Soviet Union was interested in trade, why would not you try to Stockholm, as known in the quiet diplomacy success, decide on the background of the agreement the question of Wallenberg?

... The second possible reason is associated with the fact that the Soviet army at the time of the arrest of Wallenberg was not far from the borders of Sweden, some are reminiscent of the situation before the outbreak of the Second World War, just before Sweden on all sides surrounded by German troops. Note that the role of Sweden in relations with Nazi Germany was far from innocent. Therefore, the fear of Soviet winners reason enough to spoil relations with the Soviet Union because one person did not want to. Sweden led the then policy of concessions, however, she was not alone in this.

... As of today, there are at least five different versions of the Swedish diplomat's death. Report of the Russian-Swedish Commission of Inquiry into the death of Raoul Wallenberg, which was published on January 12, to dot the "i" just could not. Today hear a criticism of the work of the commission. In a polemical article titled "Russian hiding important information" Susan Misenay, an American, a member of a group of foreign experts for several years studied commissioned by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Wallenberg case, criticized the Russian side for its unwillingness to provide all the information on the death of Wallenberg's documentation. And the fact that it has, no doubt an American.

... Anyone who is even slightly familiar with the workings of the bureaucratic machine of the Soviet and Russian institutions, and particularly structures such as the Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of Interior, are well aware that the documents can not simply disappear - this is her opinion. Endless omissions, inconsistency of data of some other sources of information, reluctance to issue certain documents - all this inevitably leads to thinking about that now Russia deliberately hides important, maybe even crucial to investigate the death of Wallenberg details. According to the assumptions of some foreign experts, Wallenberg may have been alive in 1989, because it was then that his personal belongings were handed over to relatives.

... Susan Misenay has not stinted on the accusations and against the Swedish government, surprised the apathy shown by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning the conclusion of the Working Group of international experts on the circumstances of Wallenberg's death. "The Swedes did not differ desire to cooperate with us - the American notes - in particular, our group has been denied access to classified documents in the case of the disappearance and death of the Swedish diplomat available in Sweden, because these documents could shed light on many questions." The Commission has not found evidence that Raoul Wallenberg worked with US intelligence, although he performed in Budapest jobs Iver Olsen, the American diplomat who worked in Stockholm through the organization of war refugees. In addition, Olsen was an American spy. At the time of the war, the Soviet secret service might well deem the Swedish diplomat spy: he possessed considerable information had personal contacts with high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany, and the American organization of war refugees in the Soviet Union was considered a spy network.

... The fact that Raoul Wallenberg in 1947 was still alive, is beyond doubt. But the death certificate, signed by the prison doctor, - a moot point. The document says that Wallenberg died of a heart attack. However, it is clear that the written evidence of the doctor as directed by superiors. In addition, he claims that he was summoned to the house and ordered to write such a document. At this point, the doctor is not even served in jail. Found another document with the resolution: "cremated without an autopsy."

... A new stage in the investigation of the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish study could be documents, including those relating to topics of interest of the USSR to exchange Wallenberg. Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson has promised that this issue will be studied in order to discover all the facts. He even apologized to the family of Raoul Wallenberg in person by calling for a fact that the government has done in the early postwar years, vigorous efforts, which could lead to a happy outcome. The fact that the Minister for Foreign Affairs Austen undec could raise the issue of 1946 Wallenberg in November during a personal meeting with Molotov in New York. But he did not.

... There were other, more real chances to get him out of Stalin's torture chambers. It turns out that Stalin during a personal meeting asked the Swedish ambassador Staffan Sederbloma if he wants to solve a question. I Meant Wallenberg. However Sederblom said this, that, according to him, Raoul Wallenberg was the victim of an accident or robbery in Budapest, and is confident that the Soviet authorities had no information about his fate. In conversations between the political figures of the time such wording could mean that Wallenberg is not and it should be forgotten. Needless to say, what team would give Stalin after this conversation turn.

... Another news is that independent researchers who have undertaken to verify the accuracy of the personal testimonies of finding Wallenberg in the Soviet Union at a later date, presented their results. Based on the filing of the Vladimir prison, they have created a kind of virtual reality, which revealed a camera, it is believed according to the account, even during periods of overcrowding of prisoners. Computer reality allow a high degree of probability to determine those prisoners who might under certain circumstances visible randomly classified prisoners. Tracked down and the nurse that a number of photographs pointed to Wallenberg, although it did not recognize it at the other. It is difficult to say whether this trend will search for any new significant results, but the search is definitely needed. Not least because that this technology event recovery and possible accidental contact, which give strings to people - potential witnesses used in the Wallenberg case, may find much wider application, both in Russia and in other countries.

... The search for missing people has always been and still is the hardest kind of investigations, therefore, in a sense, it is symbolic that rescued people Raoul Wallenberg their own unknown fate of advanced research in this field. After searching for is not on everyone disappeared in the dungeons of totalitarian regimes manage to get funding from governments, international and non-governmental organizations ...

The Mystery "Prisoner's the N7"

The official date of death of Raoul Wallenberg is still considered a July 17, 1947. Now, with high probability it can be argued that Wallenberg was alive July 23. And, perhaps, he was killed.

Published following an independent researchers Vadim Birstein and Susanne Berger addressed the members of the Wallenberg family - the widow of his brother, Guy von Dardel and his daughters, niece of Raoul Wallenberg and Mary Louise. The letter sets out the result of his correspondence with the authors of the FSB archives, which was carried out through the Swedish Embassy in Moscow. Consequently, the document submitted by the Russian side as a confirmation of the date and cause of death ( "myocardial infarction"), the so-called report Smoltsova - fake.

Most likely, Wallenberg's death was violent, but this finding requires further research.

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Dear Mrs. von Dardel, Mary and Louise!

We write to share with you the following news. As you know, over the past few years, we have continued to slow, but successful conversation with the archives of the Federal Security Service. The last round of discussions in November 2009 ended unexpectedly. In an official response to a number of questions concerning the entries in the prison books interrogation registrations for 1947 archivists FSB wrote that "very likely" to some point that year, Raoul Wallenberg became "prisoner number 7" in Moscow's internal (Lubyanka) prison. Additionally archivists stated that "prisoner number 7" was questioned July 23, 1947. If this information is confirmed, it would mean that the Soviet declaration of the death of Wallenberg 17 July 1947 was incorrect. Never before Russian officials pointed out so clearly to the possibility that Raoul Wallenberg lived longer than this date.

Swedish Ambassador, Mr. Thomas Bertelman and his staff quickly responded to the news. In a letter dated December 9, 2009, addressed to the chief of the Central Archive of the FSB Yury Trambitsky Mr. Bertelman wrote that "if this assumption [that Wallenberg would have entered into number 7] is confirmed, it will be a new, almost sensational fact" and asked Mr. -on Trambitsky of "recommendations for further action."

We also sent a detailed letter to the FSB with requests for more detailed information about the "prisoner number 7", including the request for instructions on assigning numbers untried prisoners, as well as requests for additional checks needed to establish the identity of "prisoner number 7" and its fate after July 23, 1947 So far, the Russian side did not provide additional information that would confirm that the "prisoner number 7" - a Raoul Wallenberg.

We want to emphasize that, before drawing final conclusions, it is necessary to further confirmation of this new information. However, if this information is confirmed, they will be the most interesting of all that was found in the Russian archives for more than 50 years.

Here are some additional details.

The new information concerns a previously unknown "prisoner number 7" who was questioned July 23, 1947 for more than 16 hours Sergey Kartashov, head of the 4th Division of the 3rd Main Directorate (GU 3, military counterintelligence) Ministry of State Security (MGB) of the USSR. This department was investigating the Wallenberg case. Simultaneously, for the same 16 hours Kartashow also interrogated Vilmos Langfeldera, Wallenberg's driver, and its intended cellmate, Sandor Cato. In his letter to the FSB archivists note that the call records for questioning the three persons say "was" checking the post. Relatively prisoner number 7 archivists write: "This mark is in this magazine" number 7 was "only to R. Wallenberg may be treated with a high probability." We expect that we will be provided a copy of the registration page of a book with records of all persons called for questioning 23 July 1947 r .; so far we have issued only up to 1-2 lines of records. But now it is clear why all the previous years, this page has not been represented completely.

The arguments were the basis for the FSB archivists conclude that Raoul Wallenberg may have identical prisoner number 7, which was questioned July 23, 1947, remain unclear. However, there is indirect evidence for such an assumption. Since its discovery in 1991, one of us, B. Birstein, order the transfer of Wallenberg from Lefortovo Prison at the Lubyanka, the camera number 7 (Vadim Birstein, "Riddle camera number 7", Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 1991), it was thought that Raul Wallenberg was precisely in this chamber. Lefortovo and Lubyanka were investigating prisons where SMERSh / MGB conducted investigation arrested. Besides Boris Solovyov, one of their former investigators of the 4th Division, he said in 1990 during a meeting with members of the Russian-Swedish working group to clarify the fate of Wallenberg, Raoul Wallenberg like has been known as the defendant "prisoner number 7" .

It must be remembered that on the night of 22 to 23 July 1947 were questioned almost all former inmates Wallenberg, including Gustav Richter, Walter Shlitera-Scheuer and Willy Roedel (see. The attached list of interrogations). After each of these interrogations interrogated it was permanently placed in a single chamber, sometimes months. If Raoul Wallenberg is now alleged Russian archivists, figured among the interrogated as "prisoner number 7", which means that after 53 years the Russian side, in the end, provide evidence that the date of death of Wallenberg July 17, 1947, on the referred to in the memorandum Gromyko in 1957, is not true.

First room interrogated prisoners who were in contact with Wallenberg to the July 23, 1947, alone due to the desire of the Soviet authorities to completely destroy the traces of his stay in prison. Now, in the light of new data, this assumption should be carefully examined again. Perhaps the letter that Minister Viktor Abakumov the MGB to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov on July 17, 1947, also had a different meaning than previously imagined. If Wallenberg was a "prisoner number 7", then most likely, Abakumov reported Molotov not about Wallenberg's death, but that was supposed to deal with Wallenberg. This could be the reason why the text of the letter was never made available.

It remains a mystery what happened to Katona, Langfelder and "prisoner number 7" after July 23, 1947 None of the prisoners were not released. The Russian side has always maintained that in the archives of the FSB no further information about Sandor Katona. It is known that Cato, Hungarian citizen, was arrested in October 1944 in Bulgaria, where he worked as a driver at the Hungarian Embassy. As for Langfeldera, the Soviet government officially informed of Hungary in 1957 that Langfelder died in custody on March 2, 1948, but the archival material was never presented. Taking into account that in those years by order of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee, the KGB falsified the date of death and shot dead prisoners, reported the date of the reality of death is highly questionable.

In connection with this are of great interest additional new data archivists of the Federal Security Service. They reported that an entry is found that the July 24, 1947, ie, the next day after a long interrogation Langfeldera Kartashov, Langfelder got things "on his hands on the instructions of Comrade. Finogenova" Deputy Chief Lubyanka prison. This is likely to mean that Langfelder was taken away from the Lubyanka prison.

As it was with many other recordings with the names of Wallenberg and Langfeldera Entry for July 24, 1947 it was smeared with black ink and restored by archivists. We expect to receive a copy of this document. If this message is confirmed, it will be apparent that Langfelder was alive after 16 hours of interrogation, July 23, 1947 It is also necessary to find out whether things were given Catone and "prisoner number 7". So far, the Russian side did not report on this issue, and we have included this issue, along with many others, in our new letter.

It is not excluded that the "prisoner number 7" could be someone other than Raoul Wallenberg. It is important to understand that usually untried numbers received for some time and, therefore, in principle, there could be several remand prisoners 'number 7' in the Lubyanka prison in 1947. Thus, in the "Report of the Swedish working group", published in 2001, it was said that "number 7 was identified as a Russian [prisoner]" (page 127.); it was about Solovova testimony, that in 1947 he handed the bag with the word "prisoner number 7". However, the report is not the date of the event, and any detailed explanation of the situation. We also do not know whether this "prisoner number 7" questioned July 23, 1947 Therefore, the list of interrogated 22/23 July 1947 is of particular importance, since it demonstrates that the "prisoner number 7" who was questioned that night, at least, had to belong to a small group of persons who were detained together with Wallenberg and Langfelder.

There are numerous testimonies of former detainees who reported that they had met Wallenberg or heard of him since 1947 in various labor camps and prisons. However, there is no evidence that Wallenberg and Langfelder were ever convicted and without being convicted, they could not get in the camps and prisons. In connection with the new data FSB testimony of former prisoners must be again carefully examined. For example, waiting for answers questions posed in the "Report of the Swedish working group" (2001) and other researchers.

During the visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Stockholm November 18, 2009 "Wallenberg case" discussed in general terms at the highest level, but the question of "prisoner number 7" was not mentioned. This issue also was raised during the return visit of Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in Moscow on March 11, 2010 As far as we know, Ambassador Belterman Sweden has also not yet received any response to its letter.

Recently, the Russian side was extremely gracious and thoroughly answered our many questions. We hope that the new information will serve as an impetus for further research and identification of additional documents in Russian archives.

Regards,

Vadim Birstein

Suzanne Berger

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List of prisoners interrogated 22/23 July 1947

I. Investigator A. Kuzmishin, head of the third branch of the 4th department of the third State MGB

Lefortovo prison, July 22, 1947

1. B. Langfelder 21: 30-22: 00

2. S. Cato 22: 00-22: 10

3. G. Richter 22: 10-22: 30

4. [W. Rodde]?

5. E. Pelkonen 22: 50-23: 00

6. H. Kichmann 23: 00-23: 20

7. [E. Krafft]?

8. R. Shtagel 23: 40-24: 00

II. Investigator S. Kartashov, head of the 4th department of the third State MGB

Lubyanka prison, July 22, 1947

1. Prisoner № July 18: 50-19: 25

2. B. Roedel 19: 20-19: 35

3. [O. Hutz]?

4. V. Shliter-Schauer 20:20:35

5. E. Huber 20: 20-22: 40

III. Investigator S. Kartashov, head of the 4th department of the third State MGB

Lubyanka prison, July 23, 1947

1. Prisoner № January 7: 50-18: 30

2. V. Langfelder 2: 15-18: 30

3. S. Cato 2: 35-18: 30

Raoul Wallenberg and his killers

(For more details of the case - in a conversation with one of the authors of the letter, Vadim Birstein)

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in 1944, saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews by issuing them protective passports so-called subjects of Sweden, awaiting repatriation to their homeland. After the capture of Budapest by Soviet troops, he was arrested and taken to Moscow, where he was kept in the inner prison of the MGB in the Lubyanka. Stockholm for many years tried unsuccessfully to find out the fate of the arrested. In February 1957, Moscow officially has informed the Swedish government that Wallenberg died on July 17, 1947 in the chamber Lubyanka prison of a heart attack. In support of this version of the Soviet side presented a document - a report chief medical unit inner prison of the MGB.

Smoltsova to the Minister of Internal Affairs Victor Abakumov.

This version does not satisfy the Wallenberg family, occupying a high social status in Sweden. In 1990, Vadim Birstein and current chairman of the "Memorial" Arseny Roginsky have access to certain archival collections MGB-KGB. In April 1991, I was an editor of the international department of "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" published an article by Vadim Birstein "The Mystery of the camera number seven", which presented the preliminary results of the investigation and questioned the official Soviet version. Subsequently, Moscow and Stockholm have agreed to continue the work of the bilateral commission. However, in 2001 the Commission concluded that the search at an impasse, and ceased to exist.

However, Vadim Birstein, who moved since then in New York, continued his studies:

- I was not a member of the Swedish commission. I was a member of the first commission to study the fate of Wallenberg, who worked in 1990-91. It was all over that when I found the document on the transfer of Wallenberg and published an article on our work - and my Roginskii - was completed at the request of the KGB, and I was not invited to the second commission. But I remained an independent researcher, because I'm working on a book about SMERSH.

First of all doubt inspired report from the commander of prison infirmary Smoltsova - in the Lubyanka archive not found a single autograph, which could collate handwriting.

- This report has always been considered an authentic document - indicates Vadim Birstein. - I have always believed that it is not a report Smoltsova itself, and the inscription on the report Smoltsova - that reported the minister and ordered the body cremated without an autopsy, - he seemed suspicious. But after it had expertise. The first - the official Swedish experts have concluded that the document is authentic. Then there was the examination of the "Memorial": Roginsky and several other members of society have shown the original, and it turned out that now this additional inscription in pencil, so it looks different.

- As events unfolded after disbanded bilateral commission?


- Suzanne Berger invited me to write a letter with her about my doubts regarding the documents that were submitted to the Commission. The Swedish Embassy has agreed to convey this letter to the archives of the FSB. I wrote that it seemed unfinished, and ask questions that the Commission did not ask. For example, the Commission has never required the original - it is not even satisfied with the copies, and copies of fragments of documents, a piece of a phrase or a piece of string. I demanded to start to provide copies of pages. Because when they say that there is a record about Wallenberg, but she blocked out with black ink, it means that only the photocopies presented erased fragment recovered by means of infrared rays, or in some other way. I demanded that this line was represented by at least a part of the page - so that you can judge its position on the page to be seen record numbers and so on. Step by step all of the available documentation has been presented, and I continue to request documents.

- Together with Wallenberg in the Lubyanka prison he was detained and his driver Vilmos Langfelder.


- In the night from 22 to 23 July, and all the inmates Wallenberg Langfeldera were called to a kind of interview or interrogation. In the testimony they gave in 1956 - those who survived - they claimed that they talked about Wallenberg, and they were told not to mention the name. When in 1990 I Roginskii began our study, we are particularly trying to find information about this interrogation. And in several cases, it confirmed the fact of questioning. Since then, the question was, what had happened. It turned out that in for questioning or interview is called and a nameless prisoner ...

- all investigations in SMERSH-MGB system for this period are not available, - says Vadim Birstein. - So, I asked a lot of questions about the investigative actions of those individuals, we are interested in. And the FSB, having familiarized with the works, answered our questions. They checked who else was questioned that night, and found that there were still some people questioned, that I did not know. As a result of this, we can say, collaboration turned out scheme, which is presented in our report. It turns out that in addition to the inmates Langfelbera and his alleged cellmate Katona, at the same time, was questioned by a mysterious prisoner №7. What really happened at these interrogations or interviews - is unknown, because they are not recorded. If a prisoner number seven was Wallenberg, it means that Wallenberg was alive, at least for the next few days. As for me, I believe that after this interrogation, he was killed, as there are formal data. But they again need to be clarified, because the FSB seems to be very vague documentary evidence of this.

- It turns out, the investigators ordered other prisoners to be silent when Wallenberg was still alive?


- Yes.


- And no this is not a myocardial infarction, not an accidental death - they were preparing to kill him?


- Yes. There is a record of registration letter Abakumov to Molotov, sent July 17. The letter itself was never presented - not the KGB, the FSB, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, by anyone. This entry was previously seen as a confirmation that Abakumov told Molotov that Wallenberg was not, that he died. Now it turns out - if we consider a letter to the new system time coordinates - that Abakumov reported Molotov plan of what needs to happen to Wallenberg. There is a parallel with the case of Isaiah Oggins. I just remember the letter Abakumov state leadership, which included a plan of political assassination. Apparently, this method is widely used because Sudoplatov mentions four such killings. He was, in particular, the murder of Oggins. But it is clear that they were planned and so much more.

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It should be clarified: Lt. Gen. Paul Sudoplatov - head of a special department of the MGB was engaged after the war, the elimination of enemies of Soviet power with the approval of the country's top leadership. Isai Oggins - US citizen recruited by the OGPU and subsequently arrested. Due to the persistent attempts of Washington to find out the fate of Oggins, Abakumov sent to Stalin and Molotov top secret memo in May 1947, in which he proposed:

"MGB finds it necessary: Oggins Isaiah eliminate, telling Americans that Oggins after a meeting with representatives of the US embassy in June 1943, was returned to the place of serving the sentence in Norilsk and there, in 1946, died in hospital as a result of acute tuberculosis of the spine" .