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New Wallenberg Evidence Surfaces

The U.S. Postal Service payed tribute to humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg when it issued a 32-cent commemorative stamp bearing his likeness Thursday, April 24, 1997, during a ceremony at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Wallenberg, who led the most extensive rescue efforts of Jewish victims of Nazism during World War II, is featured on the stamp in profile on the telephone. In the background, a group of Holocaust survivors looks over his shoulder. A Schutzpass, the false passport he oftenissued, is included in the upper left corner. (Usps)
The U.S. Postal Service payed tribute to humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg when it issued a 32-cent commemorative stamp bearing his likeness Thursday, April 24, 1997, during a ceremony at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Wallenberg, who led the most extensive rescue efforts of Jewish victims of Nazism during World War II, is featured on the stamp in profile on the telephone. In the background, a group of Holocaust survivors looks over his shoulder. A Schutzpass, the false passport he oftenissued, is included in the upper left corner. (Usps)

The U.S. Postal Service paid tribute to World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg in 1997 when it issued a 32-cent commemorative stamp bearing his likeness. New evidence from Russian archives suggests that Wallenberg, credited with rescuing tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, was alive after Soviets reported that he had died in a Moscow prison, a Swedish magazine and U.S. researchers reported Thursday April 1, 2010. The fate of Wallenberg, who was arrested in Budapest in January 1945 by the Soviet army, has remained one of the great mysteries of World War II. The Soviets claimed he was executed in July 17, 1947 but never produced a reliable death certificate or his remains. Witnesses claim he was seen in Soviet prisons or labor camps many years later, although those accounts were never verified. Now, the archives of the Russian Security Services say a man identified only as Prisoner No. 7, who was interrogated six days after the diplomat's reported death, was "with great likelihood" Wallenberg.(AP Photo/file)

Question: Can you explain to newcomers what Wallenberg's ties are to the Coeur d'Alene area?



D.F. Oliveria

D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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