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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Center Plans Purim Festival
The annual Jewish Com-
munity Center Purim cele-
bration will take place noon
Feb. 23 at the Center main
building.
The day's festivities will
include a performance by the
Young Dancers Guild in "Es-
ther—a Purim Extravaganza"
at 2 p.m. in the Aaron DeRoy
Theater. A performance of
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ed 8 p.m. Feb. 22 in the De-
Roy Theater.
Karen Epstein will portray
Esther, Michael Quinn will
portray King Ahasheurus and
Michael Burden will be Ha-
man. Youngsters from Cen-
ter dance classes also will
be featured.
Tickets are available at the
Center ticket office. For in-
formation, call the Center,
341-4200.
The rest of the Center Pur-
im festivities include a re-
union and Purim party for
last year's summer program
participants — campers and
staffers — to be held at' 1:30
p.m.
Community dancing and
roving minstrels will high-
light a party planned by the
Israeli Students Organization,
and a senior adult "nosherie"
in the lobby will be available.
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The Swedish government
and the Swedish people have
maintained a 30-year vigil,
seeking the release from So-
viet prison or actual proof
of the death of World War
II hero Raoul Wallenberg.
The University of Michigan
graduate is credited with
saving from 20,000 to 50,000
Hungarian Jews during 1944
and 1945 by issuing phony
Swedish and Swiss passports,
and bullying German troops
into releasing Jews into his
jurisdiction.
Michigan residents estab-
lished a fund in his name at
the University of Michigan
for an annual lectureship.
But the Swedes who he
represented are not con-
vinced by Soviet stories that
Wallenberg died 30 years
ago, and periodic reports
that he still is alive in So-
viet prisons continue to spur
the controversey.
Maurice Samuelson, writ-
ing in the London Jewish
Chronicle Jan. 17, describes
the Swedes' hopes about the
World War II hero:
New attempts are being
made to discover the fate of
a man who disappeared 30
years ago after saving thou-
sands of Hungarian Jews
from the death ovens of Aus-
chwitz.
It was on Jan. 17, 1945 that
Raoul Wallenberg, a young
secretary at the Swedish le-
gation in Budapest, was tak-
en under Soviet "protection"
at his own request.
In
the previous seven
months he had set up a net-
work which had saved thou-
sands from the clutches of
the SS. While Eichmann
planned their destruction,
Jews had been furnished with
Swedish documents and shel-
tered in 32 buildings flying
the Swedish flag.
With half the Hungarian
capital in Soviet hands, Wal-
lenberg was eager to secure
the Red Army's help. For a
couple of weeks after his de-
parture for Marshal Malinov-
sky's headquarters, the Rus-
sians assured Sweden that
Wallenberg was being looked
after correctly. But they
quickly changed their tune.
For the next 12 years, they
answered all further inquir-
ies by referring to a broad-
cast of March 1945 reporting
Wallenberg's death at the
hands of fugitive Gestapo
men.
Sweden's conviction that he
was still alive was bolstered
in the early 1950s by return-
ing German POWs who
claimed to have seen Wallen-
berg or his driver in Moscow
prisons.
In 1957, Andrei Gromyko,
then deputy foreign minister,
announced the discovery of
"evidence" that Wallenberg
had died of a heart attack in
the Lubyanka prison in 1947
and that his body had been
cremated immediately with-
out a post-mortem.
Gromyko apologized for
Wallenberg's death and at-
tributed it to the excesses of
the Stalin era. He had evi-
dently been suspected of es-
pionage.
This did not mollify the
Swedes, especially as it had
vindicated their rejection of
earlier Soviet statements. It
also clashed with further in-
formation that Wallenberg
had been seen or heard of
in Moscow prisons later.
RAOUL WALLENBERG
One former POW claimed
that he had met Wallenberg
in 1949 in a transit room in
the Lefortovo prison. The
Swede had told him that, af-
ter being held in solitary con-
finement for the previous two
years, he had been sentenced
to 25 years in Vorkuta.
Swedish hopes rose again
in the early 1960s when one
of the country's leading doc-
tors, Professor Nanna Svartz,
obtained information that
Wallenberg lay seriously ill
in a mental hospital. She ob-
tained this news from a So-
viet scientist whom she had
met at a conference in Mos-
co w.
But when Sweden made
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Mrs. Sara Rubenfaer at its
annual dinner, 6:30 p.m. Sun-
day at the heder building.
Mrs. Rubenfaer has been
an active supporter of the
entire heder program, as well
as its nursery for 3 to 5 year
olds.
In addition to her Luba-
vitch affiliations, including
new approaches the Kremlin
reacted with anger and em-
barrassment and Professor
Svartz's informant suddenly
denied knowing anything
about the matter.
Since 1965, the Swedish
Government had made no
new approach to Moscow.
However, the question is still
regarded as open.
Every new morsel of in-
formation about Soviet pri-
son camps or their inmates
is carefully sifted.
Recently, discreet and un-
official injuiries have been
made among Jewish and dis-
sident emigres from the So-
viet Union.
The latest reports about
"sightings" of Wallenberg
circulated in Sweden last
spring. One Jewish emigre in
Israel believes Wallenberg
could be among prisoners
held on remote Wrangel Is-
land.
Even so, hope persists
that Wallenberg—now aged
63—could still be living. Only
last month, Russian novelist
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn wag
asked for his opinion by Wal-
lenberg's aged mother. Thii
Nobel laureate replied that
after studying a dossier off
the case it was possible that
Wallenberg was alive.
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