DisappearanceUnsolved
The Disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg
Budapest, HungaryJanuary 17, 1945
Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust by issuing protective passports, was arrested by Soviet forces in Budapest on January 17, 1945. The Soviets claimed he died in a Moscow prison in 1947, but witnesses reported seeing him alive in Soviet labor camps for decades afterward. His fate remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Cold War.