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

Identifier
irn522789
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.675
  • RG-66.005
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1991
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522789

Extent and Medium

box

1

8 microfiche,

Archival History

Sweden. Utrikesdepartementet

Acquisition

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.

Scope and Content

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.

System of Arrangement

Organized in the following order: RG-66.00501, Documents 1945-1991; RG-66.00502, Documents 1952-1986; RG-66.00503, Documents 1946-1957; RG-66.00504, Documents 1946-1979

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Sweden. Utrikesdepartementet

People

  • Langfelder, Vilmos.
  • Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947.

Subjects

  • Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1945-1991.
  • Hungary--History--1918-1945.
  • Sweden--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary.
  • Diplomats--Sweden.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary.
  • Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
  • Sweden.Utrikesdepartementet.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Hungary--Budapest.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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