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| Washington (special) -- Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), who was one of
the Hungarian Jews saved by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg during the
Holocaust, declines to accept a report by Russian authorities contending
that the humanitarian who mysteriously disappeared at the end of World
War II was shot to death in a Soviet prison in 1947.
"I have read the press statements of Alexsander Yakovlev, the chairman of the presidential commission on rehabilitation of political repression, which examined the case of Raoul Wallenberg among others," the San Francisco Bay area congressman said in a news release. "While I welcome the Russian interest in resolving the Wallenberg case, thus far the Commission has not come up with any documentary evidence or any verifiable personal accounts to back up its assumption -- and it is no more than an assumption -- that he was murdered in the Stalin era. Also, a number of credible sightings of Wallenberg have been reported well after 1953, and these remain unexplained." -- Donald H. Harrison |
