AJC Says Russian Investigation Brings Solving Wallenberg Mystery Near ClosureAmerican Jewish Committee The American Jewish Committee said today that the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg nearly 56 years ago may finally be solved, referring to the announcement from the chairman of the Kremlin commission investigating what happened to the courageous Swedish diplomat who saved 100,000 Jews before being seized by Soviet forces. "This important chapter in Holocaust history cannot be closed without answers to two questions: why was Wallenberg arrested on January 17, 1945, and what happened to him after he entered the infamous Soviet gulag," said David A. Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee.  "The Kremlin commission's conclusion that Wallenberg was shot to death in a Soviet prison in 1947 begins to answer what happened to this courageous Swedish diplomat after he was arrested. " said Mr. Harris. "But the world still needs a complete rendering of why he was arrested and imprisoned. Only then can one of the greatest, and tragic, mysteries of the 20th century be fully solved." The American Jewish Committee earlier this year launched a campaign to press for a resolution of the mystery of Wallenberg's disappearance. The campaign included a New York Times ad, an op-ed article by Mr. Harris published in the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune, and the publication of a monograph, The Wallenberg Mystery: Fifty-five Years Later. The American Jewish Committee's efforts to solve the Wallenberg mystery began in 1979, when together with Congressman and Mrs. Tom Lantos AJC first brought the Wallenberg story to the American public in an initiative that led Congress to grant him honorary U.S. citizenship.
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