Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust and then disappeared after being detained by Russian officers, will finally be declared dead, the Swedish Tax Authority says, according to Reuters.
The Authority does not say when the official declaration will take place.
Wallenberg was posted to Nazi-occupied Budapest in July 1944 and rescued thousands of Jews by issuing them protective passports in the final months of the Holocaust.
Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons)
He disappeared under mysterious circumstances, after last being seen alive surrounded by Soviet officers in Budapest on January 17, 1945.
Wallenberg’s family has never received an explanation for why he was arrested by Soviet forces shortly after they liberated Hungary from the Nazis, nor what happened to him after his arrest.
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