Archive for Sweden

“The Tragedy of Central Europe” (1945-1989)

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on 19 December 2012 by delclem

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On Milan Kundera‘s seminal and problematic, ie. almost racist,
essay from 1984 >text (c) EUROPEAN STUDIES IN LUND, 2010

Raoul Wallenberg 1912-47(?): savior & victim

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 4 August 2012 by delclem


“A Swedish diplomat saved the lives of many Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust, but his fate since he was abducted by the Soviets in 1945 is unknown.”

A call to remember & research on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
>full text (c) HAARETZ, 2012   >video on Wallenberg (c) YouTube, 2011

A statue of Raoul Wallenberg in Tel Aviv: photo by Tomer Appelbaum
Upper photo: Wallenberg portrait in the Austrian Embassy, Budapest (c) EPA