Raoul Wallenberg
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Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian fascists d
Passport photo from June 1944
Former location of the summer villa where Wallenberg was born in 1912 (pictured in 2009)
Wallenberg as a youth
Bronze statue of Raoul Wallenberg in Tel Aviv
SMERSH
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SMERSH was an umbrella organization for three independent counter-intelligence agencies in the Red Army formed in late 1942 or even earlier, but officially announced only on 14 April 1943. The name SM
Raoul Wallenberg
…and sheltered Jews in buildings which he declared as Swedish territory. On 17 January 1945, during the Siege of Budapest by the Red Army, agents of SMERSH detained Wallenberg on suspicion of espionage, and he subsequently disappeared. In 1957, 12 years after his disappearance, he was reported by Soviet…
СМЕРШ Удостоверение контрразведки 1943
SMERSH identity document
In February 1945, while serving as an officer in the Red Army, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested by SMERSH for letters to a friend in which he criticized Stalin and the Soviet regime.