Relatives of Raoul Wallenberg will press Russian President Boris Yeltsin for full access to archives on the disappeared Swedish diplomat during Yeltsin’s visit to the Scandinavian nation this week. Wallenberg, who saved hundreds of Hungarian Jews during World War II, was last seen alive in 1945. He is rumored to have died in a Soviet prison cell.
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