[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 610 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 610

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President 
and the Secretary of State should continue to press Russian authorities 
    for a full and complete accounting regarding the fate of Raoul 
                              Wallenberg.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 29, 2012

   Mr. Smith of New Jersey (for himself and Mr. Turner of New York) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                           on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President 
and the Secretary of State should continue to press Russian authorities 
    for a full and complete accounting regarding the fate of Raoul 
                              Wallenberg.

Whereas on July 9, 1944, after the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews to 
        Auschwitz-Birkenau had begun, Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest, 
        Hungary, to work at the Swedish legation;
Whereas thousands of Hungarian Jews received Wallenberg's ``passports,'' 
        enabling them to escape deportation and death;
Whereas Wallenberg was arrested by Soviet forces in Hungary in 1945 and 
        subsequent Soviet and Russian explanations of Wallenberg's fate remain 
        incomplete, inconsistent, and unreliable;
Whereas the fate of Raoul Wallenberg is one of the unanswered questions of the 
        Holocaust;
Whereas the Kremlin perpetrated a vast deception about Wallenberg's fate and 
        fundamental questions remain, including why the Soviets arrested 
        Wallenberg, why Wallenberg was kept in detention, how was Wallenberg put 
        to death, who ordered the deed, who executed it and when; and
Whereas 2012 marks the centennial year of the birth of Raoul Wallenberg: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the President and the Secretary of State should continue to press 
Russian authorities for a full and complete accounting regarding the 
fate of Raoul Wallenberg.
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