Russian Court Refuses to Reveal Holocaust Hero’s Fate
Sergei V. Churikov, the F.S.B.’s lawyer, said during the court hearing
that his security agency is not a successor to Soviet security services, mainly the K.G.B., and the fact that they keep their archives is only "a misfortune." One of the calendars, hanging in the courtroom, spoke to the opposite.
18, 2017
MOSCOW — A Russian court refused on Monday to order Russia’s top security agency to release documents
that would shed light on the mysterious death of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat and Holocaust hero.
Following a brisk one-day hearing, a judge in Moscow agreed with Federal Security Service’s lawyers, who argued
that the agency cannot make the documents public, as they would reveal private information about other prisoners of the Soviet secret service, as well as its guards and investigators.
Marie Dupuy, Mr. Wallenberg’s niece, filed a lawsuit against the security service, known as the F.S.B., in July, seeking access to uncensored prison records
and other documents that could give clues about his fate.
Following Stalin’s death, the Soviet authorities said
that they had discovered a medical report that indicated that Mr. Wallenberg died of a heart attack in prison in July 1947 at age 37.
