THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Another Eye-Witness in Wallenberg Case
drovsky, a former Jewish
Telegraph Agency reporter.
Vendrovsky had been trans-
ferred from confinement
two cells away, where his
cellmate had been Wallen-
berg and a former Latvian
cabinet minister.
In a recent, nationally-
syndicated column, Jack
Anderson reported that an-
other eye-witness has been
found that saw Raoul-
Wallenberg alive in recent
years in a Soviet prison.
Wallenberg, a Univeristy
of Michigan graduate,
saved thousands of Jews in
Budapest from the Nazis at
the end of World War II by
issuing Swedish papers to
Jews and housing them in
homes he purchased.
Anderson wrote:
Last year we reported
the suspicions of interna-
tional experts that Wal-
lenberg did not, as the
Soviets "admitted" in
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tion in New York City.
After a subsequent trans-
fer, another inmate, Simon
Gogoberidze, told Kalinski
of sharing a cell with Wal-
lenberg. The two peered
through their slit-like cell
window and could see Wal-
lenberg plodding in circles
in the exercise yard, under
the watchful eye of his
guards. That was in 1959.
Eight years later,
Kalinski learned that
Gogoberidze had been re-
leased after serving a
25-year term, and visited
him at his home. During
their reminiscences,
Gogoberidze remarked:
"Remember that
Swedish fellow Wallen-
berg? When I left, he was
still sitting there in
prison, with some Soviet
colonel."
And in 1975, the daugh-
ter of a former Soviet pris-
oner told Kalinski her
father had recalled many
who had miraculously sur-
vived years of incarcera-
tion, including "one Swede
JACK ANDERSON
1956, die in Moscow's
Lubianka Prison in 1947.
The Kremlin's belated
report of Wallenberg's
death followed years of
denying knowledge of his
whereabouts.
We have firsthand evi-
dence, from a fellow inmate
in the remote Vie-
rhnieuralskaya prison
camp, that Wallenberg was
still alive in 1959. Our
source, former Polish Army
Capt. Abraham Kalinski, is
now a chemical engineer in
Israel after more than 15
years as a Soviet prisoner.
Kalinski told our associ-
ate Sam Fogg that in 1951
he was joined by a new
cellmate, David Ven-
who was still alive after 30
years." Kalinski is sure the
reference was to Wallen-
berg.
Anderson writes that
Sweden may boycott the
Olympics and demand an
international investigation
of the Wallenberg case.
TAU Bestows
Award on Meany
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.
Tel Aviv University, Is-
rael's largest institution of
higher learning with more
than 18,000 students,
awarded an honorary docto-
rate to AFL-CIO President
George Meany. The degree
was conferred by Prof. Haim
Ben-Shahar, president of
the university.
Meany received the
award "for his support of the
ideals of the Jewish people
in their struggle to attain
nationals emancipation."
Meany's
acceptance
speech
challenged
President Carter to reassert
his pro-Israel stand in the
Middle East, and added,
"but come what may, we in
the labor movement will
never abandon Israel. In
good times and in bad we
stand by our friends — and
Israel is our friend."
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