Raoul Wallenberg Project Archive collection

Identifier
irn503822
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

The audio-taped interviews, transcripts, and other documents were collected and compiled by the Raoul Wallenberg Project from 1989 to 1992. Transcripts of the survivor interviews and documents from archives in Hungary, Sweden, the United States, and Great Britain were microfilmed for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in October 1994. The interviews and films were purchased and received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in November 1994. Administrative records of the Wallenberg project were not a part of the purchase.

Scope and Content

Consists of interviews and transcripts collected by the Raoul Wallenberg Project containing testimony of Holocaust survivors from Hungary. The interviews contain information about the diplomatic work of the Swedish government and its agents, among them Raoul Wallenberg, Per Anger, and Charles Lutz, in Hungary (primarily Budapest) during 1944 and 1945. Also contains records copied from Sweden's Foreign Office, the Hungarian Interior Ministry, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in New York, the Public Record Office in London, and the War Refugee Board in Hyde Park, N.Y.

Genre

  • Collection
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