Soviets Feel World Pressure
in Case of Raoul Wallenberg
MONTREAL (JTA) — A
contemporary of Raoul Wal-
lenberg, the Swedish dip-
lomat who saved thousands
of Jews in Hungary during
World War II and is be-
lieved to be held in a Soviet
prison since 1945, declared
last week that world public
opinion is being mobilized
to force the Soviet Union to
provide information on
Wallenberg.
Speaking to 300 persons
last week at a dinner spon-
sored by the Canadian
Jewish Congress, the
Montreal branch of Histad-
rut and other Jewish organ-
izations, Per Anger, former
Swedish Ambassador to
Canada, noted that at a re-
cent international confer-
ence for Wallenberg in
Stockholm, a resolution was
adopted asking Moscow to
allow a commission to go to
the Soviet Union to investi-
gate the case.
"Worldwide public opin-
foreign minister of the
Soviet Union, Andrei
Gromyko. That document
purported to demonstrate
that newly-discovered re-
cords indicated that Wal-
lenberg had, indeed, been
imprisoned but had died of a
heart attack in July, 1947.
"No death certificate ac-
companied the document.
No explanation for his ar-
rest was contained in the
document. It simply re-
ported the death and
blamed any past misun-
derstandings and confusion
on already discredited fig-
ures of the discarded
Stalinist regime."
Wallenberg's disap-
pearance coincided with
the Russian "liberation"
of Budapest in 1945. An
international effort has
been under way to de-
termine his fate.
Among other heroic, wts,
noted Levin, Wallenberg
created protective Swedish
passports for Jews, dined
with Nazi officials to gain
delays, and ordered Jews re-
leased from railroad cars.
Knesseter to Visit Detroit
This Week for Israel Bonds
AVRAHAM SHARIR
region of the United States,
based in Atlan' and frOm
1972 to 1974 L. was eco-
nomic consul of Israel for
the western region of the
United States, based in Los
Angeles. In this capacity he
was responsible for the
encouragement of invest-
ments in Israel, particu-
larly,in science-basec indus-
I
Friday; February 20, 1981 51
Beguns Establish WSU Fund
to Benefit Disabled Students
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A.
ion is getting bigger and Begun of Birmingham have
stronger," with the gov- established the Dorothy
ernments of Canada, the Begun Memorial Endow-
United States and Britain ment Fund for Disabled
"intervening officially in Students at Wayne State
Moscow so that complete University with an initial
light should be made in the gift of $10,000.
The fund is named for Be-
Wallenberg case," Anger
gun's first wife, who died in
said.
Meanwhile, the Judaic 1976. Interest from the
Heritage Society has dedi- endowment will provide
cated its annual award special services for disabled
medal to Wallenberg. The students under the direc-
medal is 11/2 inches in tion of the Educational Re-
diameter and sold in bronze, sources for Students with
silver plate, sterling silver Disabilities Department at
and gold editions. For in- WSU.
The fund will be espe-
formation, write the Judaic
Heritage Society, PO Box cially helpful to those stu-
2022, New York, N.Y-. MSU
Hillel
10163
Wallenberg Plight Emphasized
in U-M Lecture by Sen. Levin
Raoul Wallenberg, the tion circulated throughout
missing Swedish diplomat the growing community of
who helped save 20,000 those concerned about Wal-
Jews from Nazi extinction lenberg and, ultimately, to
in Budapest during World the Soviet authorities.
War II, serves as a model of Those authorities promptly
the "morality" and "com- arrested Jan Kaplan again.
passion" that modern
"Repeated attempts by
society should seek to per- our government and
petuate, said U.S. Sen. Carl others to locate him (Kap-
Levin (D-Mich.) in a speech lan) or talk to him have
at the University of Michi- been rebuffed by the
gan.
Russians. His crime ap-
Levin delivered the 1981 pears to have been mak-
Raoul Wallenberg Lecture ing a casual, inadvertent
last Friday under sponsor- statement which might
ship of the U-M College of imply that after 30 years
Architecture and Urban of isolation, Raoul Wal-
Planning.
lenberg still lived some-
The lecture is named for where in the frozen wild
the 1935 graduate of the of the Gulag," said Levin.
U-M College who, after per-
In addition to Kaplan's
forming heroic relief work
in Hungary, mysteriously story, there. have been "re-
disappeared in 1945. Recent ports of sightings, stories of
reports indicate he may still meetings, tales of conversa-
be alive in a Soviet prison tions (with Wallenberg),"
camp, but Russian said Levin.
authorities have denied
Citing the Soviets' consis-
this. This month Wallen- tent denials that Wallen-
berg was named as one of - berg is alive, Levin notes
the nominees for the Nobel that in 1957, the Soviets
Peace Prize.
"produced a document,
Relating the Wallen- signed by the current
berg experience to 'pre-
sent times, Levin said
ethical conflicts some-
times arise when laws are
applied to deal with un-
Avraham Sharir, a
foreseeable problems.
For example, he said, member of the Knesset who
equal housing laws ought has served his country in
not rule out ethnic "con- many vital economic posts,
tinuity" in neighbor- will visit Detroit Wednes-
hoods. Instead, policies day and Thursday to meet
should facilitate com- privately with top com-
munities which "promote munal leaders regarding
identity and stability," investment in Israel's eco-
nomic development for
said Levin.
Turning to the Wallen- peace.
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Representing Israel's
berg case, Levin said that,
/ despite the Soviet Union's Ministry of Finance, Sharir
contention that he died in a will discuss with the many
Soviet prison in 1947, there aspects of Israel's economic
have been reports since needs that require support
then that Wallenberg may through the Israel Bond
program.
still be alive.
Sharir, who is par-
"Just three years ago, a
whip for the
man named Jan Kaplan liamentary
Likud Party in the Knes-
was released from a Soviet
set, has served since 1974
prison. He called his wife in as
secretary general of
Israel and, in an attempt to the Liberal Party and
assure her that he had sur- was national director of
vived his ordeal in good its
public relations team
health, told her that he had
during the 1977 election
seen a Swedish prisoner campaign.
who had been held for over
From 1970 to 1972 he
30 years.
served as economic consul of
"Word of that conversa- Israel for the South,easteil -c
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For details, call the stu-
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or Miriam Spinner, (517)
351-1731.
dents with hearing impair-
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