01/17/2026
January 17th... 1945... "The passage of 81 years has not dimmed Wallenberg’s star or people’s interest in his fate."
Thanks for this moving story by Hillel Kuttler, here: https://lnkd.in/gj9CqEQ7
"Ari Kaplan, a mathematician, and Marvin Makinen, a scientist, visited Vilnius this past November. The two Americans have been collaborating on a project for about three decades and, at the request of a Lithuanian think tank, traveled from their homes in Chicago to share their research.
Their work concerns the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, a legendary rescuer of Jews during World War II.
Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat based in Budapest, entered a Soviet military vehicle in the Hungarian capital on January 17, 1945, following the Red Army’s ejection of German troops. He didn’t know whether he was being driven to a meeting with a Soviet official or placed under arrest.
He was never seen in public or heard from again..."
Please read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gj9CqEQ7
Non-profit focused on investigating the fate of hero of the Holocaust Raoul Wallenberg, who "disappeared" into the gulag.
