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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37824692
There has always been a faint hope that Wallenberg would be found after he disappeared into history and, most likely, into Stalin's internment camps. The hope has been microscopic, yes, but it's been there. Of course, even had he lived to ripe old age as a "guest" of the Soviets, he would have been dead by now.
But, now it's official. He's been officially declared dead.
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who helped thousands of Hungarian Jews to escape Nazi mass murder in World War Two, has been formally pronounced dead by Sweden's Tax Agency.
He was arrested by Soviet forces in Hungary in 1945 and disappeared. He is thought to have died in a Soviet prison, but his fate remains a mystery.
Thousands of Jews escaped deportation to Auschwitz because Wallenberg gave them Swedish protective passes.
There has always been a faint hope that Wallenberg would be found after he disappeared into history and, most likely, into Stalin's internment camps. The hope has been microscopic, yes, but it's been there. Of course, even had he lived to ripe old age as a "guest" of the Soviets, he would have been dead by now.
But, now it's official. He's been officially declared dead.