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Records transferred to the Government of Sweden by the Soviet Commission to investigate the fate of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.675 | RG Number: RG-66.005

Overview

Description: Contains records related to an investigation of the fate of the Swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg who disappeared in the Soviet Union after WWII. The files include correspondence between Soviet Government agencies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, the Ministry of Interior of Sweden, and the Swedish Ambassador in Moscow, regarding the investigations of Wallenberg's fate after he and his driver Vilmos Langfelder had been arrested and taken into custody by Soviet authorities in Budapest in May 1945. All the documents had been gathered by the Soviet Commission, established in 1990. with the specific purpose to clarify the fate of Raoul Wallenberg.
Date: 1945-1991

Physical Details

Language: Russian
Genre/Form: Correspondence.
Extent: 8 microfiche.
Extent: 1 box
System of Arrangement: Organized in the following order: RG-66.005*01, Documents 1945-1991; RG-66.005*02, Documents 1952-1986; RG-66.005*03, Documents 1946-1957; RG-66.005*04, Documents 1946-1979

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions to this material.
Conditions on Use: The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Copyright Holder: Sweden. Utrikesdepartementet

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary. Jews--Persecutions--Hungary--Budapest. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. Diplomats--Sweden. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary.
Geographic Name: Hungary--History--1918-1945. Sweden--Foreign relations--Soviet Union. Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1945-1991.
Personal Name: Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947. Langfelder, Vilmos.
Meeting Name: Sweden.Utrikesdepartementet.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Sweden. Utrikesdepartementet
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Records formerly originating from several archives of Soviet Government agencies and ministries, such as the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD and its successors MGB and KGB), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of USSR. Copies of the documents were provided to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, along with the diplomatic passport of Wallenberg, for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection in May 2004.

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