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June 27, 1986 - Image 22

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Raoul Wallenberg
Historians have a major duty:
they must strive for the truth.
Unless they are factual and can
prove the veracity of their writ-
ings, they lose the right to claim
authoritativeness.
One such inexcusable distor-
tion is exposed in the Jewish
Week. It deals with the oft-
repeated claims in articles and
books about Raoul Wallenberg,
that during World War II he had
a love affair with Baroness
Elizabeth Kemeny Fuchs, wife of
Hungarian Foreign Minister
Baron Gabor Kemeny, and it was
the cause for his having pre-
vented enforcement of anti-
Semitic legislation in Hungary
threatening the lives of many
more Hungarian Jews.
The Baroness herself, now vis-
iting this country as guest of the
Wallenberg Committee of
Greater Philadelphia, denies the
rumors of a love affair and the
distortions in that regard that
have been circulated all-too-
widely. The report of her denial
appears in the May 30 issue of
Jewish Week of New York, writ-
ten by Eleanore Lester:
"I was six, seven months pre-
gnant. I was not very well, and I
was in love with my husband,"
explained the baroness in an
interview. "We were bombed
twice every day, first by the
British, then by the Russians. It
was terrible.
"Then one day I saw from my
window this sight that was unbe-
lievable. People, old, young, sick,
women, children, walking in a
procession. They looked . ." She
paused, searching for an
adequate English word, but gave
up. "They looked bad, very bad"

"I ran downstairs and asked
the guard outside the door, 'What
is this? Who are these people?' He
answered, 'Just Jew's. They're
taking them to work.' Well, I saw
these people were not being
taken to work. I didn't know any-
thing about death camps, but I
could see these people weren't
going to work."
The baroness decided to contact
Raoul Wallenberg, whom she had
met at a diplomatic function. She
knew that he was attached to the
Swedish legation and was on a
rescue mission. She asked what
she could do to help.
Wallenberg told her to get her
husband to restore the validity of
the safety passes. They had
enabled him to declare a limited
number of Budapest Jews poten-
tial Swedish citizens and, there-
fore, exempt from deportation.

"I went to my husband and I
asked him to fight for the restora-
tion of the shutzpasses," contin-
ued the baroness. "He said it was
impossible. It was not his affair
as foreign secretary. But I said,
`You must.' I threatened to leave
him. At one point I got so angry I
threw everything off the table,
everything. Finally, he agreed to
do it. There was a closed cabinet
fight, but he won. The passes
were restored."
Nevertheless, the reign of ter-
ror continued. Savage Jew-haters
and teenagers with tommy guns
ran amok in the streets, pulling
Jews out of hiding places, hospi-
tals and safe houses established
by Wallenberg.
Whenever a new outrage oc-
curred or was imminent, Wallen-
berg called the baroness, and she
called her husband to take police
measures. For thousands of

"I was six, seven
months pregnant. I
was not very well
and I was in love
with my husband."

Budapest Jews, the efforts were
often too late.
"Wallenberg and I were in con-
stant touch," said the baroness.
"But I was only the liaison be-
tween him and my husband.
Without my husband, I could do
nothing" .. .
"Wallenberg never promised
that he would protect my hus-
band after the war," she said. "He
never mentioned it, and I never
asked it" . . . The baron and other
Arrow Cross members were exe-
cuted for war crimes in 1946.
"I decided to leave on Dec. 5 be-
cause I was expecting my baby,
and in view of the war conditions
it seemed best that I leave.
"I never saw Wallenberg again
after he said good-bye to me on
Dec. 5." Wallenberg was taken
prisoner by. Soviet agents in
Budapest on Jan. 17, 1945. Al-
though the Russians claim he
died of a heart attack in 1947,
there has never been a detailed
official report of his fate, and
many believe he remains alive.
He would now be 72.
P.S.

WJC Seeks
Camp Survivors

New York — The U.S. De-
partment of Justice has re-
quested the assistance of the
World Jewish Congress in locat-
ing witnesses to Nazi crimes
committed between 1942 and
1944 at the Maidanek death
camp in Poland, the Mauthausen
camp in Austria and two of its
sub-camps, Steyr-Muenichholz
and Linz III.
Survivors may communicate in
any language they choose and are
asked to contact Bessy Pupko,
World Jewish Congress, One
Park Avenue, New York 10016,
(212) 679-0600.

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