Eyewitness reports
of Scandinavians / Swedes in Soviet Captivity
As mentioned
in testimonies in the Raoul Wallenberg Case.
(Not Listed on Russian Prisoner Cards
– Roosarchiv – and not including Kirunaor Gammailsvenskby Swedes).
Named Swedes
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Information
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Adamsson-Langeberg |
Flyer, 1951 Vorkuta |
UD Filed Testimony of Manfred |
Possibly identical with Harald Adamson |
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Adler, Herbert |
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Adolfson |
Norilsk |
Sanitatadienst |
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Aidam, Bernard
Franz |
b. 1896, German artist interned
in Poland, 1948 in repatriation camp. |
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Adbedyll, Silvius |
Arrested 1946 in Ruegen, Executed in 1947. |
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Albers, Gustaf
Johan |
Born 1904, evangelist, Swedish
citizen, arrested 1945. |
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Alerius, Al |
Spy for Finland, released 1978? |
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Andersson, Eduards |
Swedish agent, arrested October 1945,
Latvia. |
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Andersson, Arvid |
Latvian SS |
See German Red Cross |
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Andersson, Willy |
Mordova 1979, supposedly
long time prisoner |
Testimony of Paul Brawer |
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Andresen, Jacob Andreas |
Born 1920, Danish Lt. in SS
Division Nordland. Sentenced on April 5, 1950 by
Military Tribunal in Kiev. |
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Andstrom/Angstroem |
Supposedly “Swedish
Consul” Vorkuta with Hult, 1950 |
Testimony of Alexander Thomsen. |
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Angerborg, Josef |
Kiev |
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Bachhofner |
Norilsk |
Sanitatsdienst |
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Bastamov,
Vladimir |
Finnish with Swedish family. In
Vladimir Prison, released November 1956. |
UD Files |
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Bergholm, Ulrich |
Born 1924, Finn |
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Bergstrom, Holger |
Born Sweden 1920 or 1922, grew up in Silesia, stateless, served
in SS. Arrested 1946, 1947 - sentenced 1948 for Espionage. 1949 INTA.
Released November 1956. |
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Bjoerk, Gunther |
Worked for Germans |
Also Piorg |
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Bjorkelund, Boris |
Finnish. 1945-1955. |
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Bionarius, Wilhelm |
Born 1909. Estonian |
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Blom, Lars |
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Book, Karl |
Born 1925, DC-3. Missing since June 1952. |
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Brandenberger, Karl |
Swiss diplomat, repatriated 1946. |
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Brangt, Srthur |
Born 1920. Arrested in Berlin. |
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Bringentoff, Nils |
Born March 25, 1926. Released early
1956. |
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Bulman (Bornan) |
Reportedly in Vladimir |
Von Wetschl,
Kelly |
Maybe be identifical
to Boman, Unto-Ilmari A. |
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Broberg, Andreas
Paul |
Born 1904, Danish captain in SS
Division Nordland, sentenced on December 24, 1949
by Military Tribunal to 25 years. |
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Carlson, Peder |
Kistarca, Hungary |
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Carlsson, Mogens |
Danish |
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Christiansen, Christian |
Danish Pastor,
released 1948. |
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Deutschbein, Curt |
Released 1951. |
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Dirchssen/Dirksen,
Hans |
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Ditrus, Valentin |
Born 1917, Swede, served in Germany
Army. |
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Domjorgen, Terr |
Born 1907, engineer. Together
with Dr. Johansson, seen in Camp 7062/13 Kiev |
Testimony of “Caritas Sueciae” |
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Eichenbaum, Adolf |
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Edvard Michael |
Alias Lundgren, Oskar Fredrik
Wilhelm, Linder, Edvard EICHENBAUM. |
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Engstrom, Nils |
Arrrested 1977;
together with Bengt Sareld;
released same year. |
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Erben |
Norilsk |
Sanitatsdienst |
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Erlandsson, Karl Einer |
Sailor. In Butyrka
1945, released 1946-1947. |
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“Eriksson.” |
Arrested 1944 in Eastern Europe; Red
Cross association. Held in Camp 27 and Lubyanka,
then Vladimir 1950 |
Ludwig Hunoldt |
With two other unidentified
Swedes |
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Eriksson |
From Norrkoeping,
wife’s name ended in –kvist. Worked for
German Intelligence. 1952-54 Spaask. |
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Erns, Alfred |
Born 1922. |
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Fahrstrom, Bror |
Born 1912. Soldier. Arrested 1944. |
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Von Feilitzen,
Bertil |
Born 1911. Not clear if ever in Soviet
Captivity. |
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Fischer, Hans |
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Forsberg, Harry William |
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Fredriksson/ Friedrichsen |
Swedish/German, seen in 1955,
about 72 years old. |
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Fri, Sven Knut |
Born 1915, Danish. Company commander. Sentenced on June
28.1950 by Military Tribunal in Kiev to 25 years. |
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Frost, Henning |
Born 1912, arrested 1945. In Vorkuta 1952-53. Returned 1958. |
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Gottlieb, Roland |
German diplomat married to a
Swedish woman. Arrested 1944 in Sofia.
Indirect witness to Raoul Wallenberg in Lefortovo 1947-1948. |
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Gruenther |
In Vladimir in the 1950s |
Cumish and
Kelly |
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Guenther, Tobis |
Born 1925, Inta. |
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Gus, Andrei |
Russian |
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Gustavsson, Knut |
Born 1917, Danish, arrested in
Danzig 1947. Sentenced to 25 years in Kiev in 1949; held in Stalingrad,
released 1955. |
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Gustavsson, Nils |
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Gustavsson, Olof |
Born 1920. Seen May-July 1949 in Camp 7062/13. |
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Hallisk, Evald |
Arrested 1949, Butyrka 1952.
Released |
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Halnbeck, Etien |
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Harewes, Wirgo Magnus |
Born 1911, Estonians. Arrested
1943, sentenced to 25 years. In
INTA 1956. |
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Harjo, Oswald |
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Hasse, H.J. |
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Hagstrom/Hegstrom Valentins |
Born 1920. Finn. Used alias “Vinogradov.
Interned in Vienna, 1945. |
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Hirdstroem |
Swedish Red Cross official. |
Ambiguous whether a prisoner |
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Hjortzberg-Nordlund Johan |
Swedish diplomat, traveled
through Soviet territory on way home from Teheran. |
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Holmstrom, Gustaf Leo |
Finnish deserter 1944. May have been a sailor. May have been released in 1953. |
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Hult-Eskola, Nanna |
Born 1909. Vorkuta 1946 – 1954. |
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Isaksen, Emil |
Norwegian fisherman,
released 1953. |
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Italiener, Felix |
Born 1919, musician. Claimed to
be Swedish. Arrested Berlin 1949, in Vorkuta; Bikovo
1955. Released 1958. |
Alias: Hans Tanzer? |
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Jefferson, Johan |
Born about 1905, allegedly
Swedish Businessman, arrested 1950 in Hungary. |
Name and identity unconfirmed. |
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Jensen, Olof |
25 years old. Seen in October 1953, Camp 231, Kirov. |
May be pseudonym. |
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Jesinger |
See MYRMAN |
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Johannson, Arne |
Swede working for Swedish Match
in Budapest, disappeared. Fate unclear. |
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Johansson, Karl |
Abducted Vienna, 1949. |
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Johansson, Fredrik, Dr. |
Born 1890s. Grey hair, strong
build. Arrested 1944 in Central Europe, first taken to Jacsi. Seen
1955 gong from Mamrosh-Siketh to Ukraine. |
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Johansson, Dr. |
Born 1897. Seen in Kiev, Camp 7062/13. |
Testimony of “Caritas Sueciae” |
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Johansson, Emil |
Arrested 1951, Hungary. |
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Jorgensson/Johansson,
Nils Hilding |
Born 1918 or 1920. Businessman arrested in 1945 in
Dresden. Swedish consulate. Remains unidentified. |
Russian Foreign Ministry |
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Jorgensen, Sven |
Omsk (1947-1949) |
Testimony of Ott |
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Kivarimes, Georg
A. |
Born 1923, arrested 1944/45. Sentenced
to 10 years, lived in USSR after release from prison until return to Sweden
in 1968. |
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Krasnov, Nikolai |
Arrested 1945 in Baden Austria
– held in LUBIANKA, Lefortovo, Butyrkas Krash, in Taishet, 1950. |
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Krenholm, Lars |
See SIGRINHOLM |
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Kronstrom, Gunnar |
Identical with Carl Gunnar Kronberg |
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Kvist, Ake |
Born 1920, Finn. Sentenced in Leningrad
in 1951. |
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Koseema, Karl |
Vorkuta |
Testimony of Gottlieb |
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Lagua, Arnold
Jan |
Sea Captain with a Swedish son. Associated
with “Nansen passes. Spaask/Sulikamsk 1954; Karaganda, 1955; |
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Langert, Hans
Albert |
Born 1910 – Taken off
repatriation train by plainclothes Soviet Authorities before it reached the
border |
Not sure if Swedish or Swiss |
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Larsen, Hans |
Danish, in camp with Knut Gustafsson in Stalino. |
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Larsen, Otto |
Born 1920, Norwegian. Held with Henning Froesth
in Komsomolsk in 1945. |
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Larsson, Gustaf |
Swedish communist, served in
Soviet Navy 1952, Radiostanza, |
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Leuvenhaupt, Karl-Mauritz |
1948 in Lefortovo,
then Sukhanovo |
Testimony of De Latry |
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Lindberg |
Inta/Abez 1953 |
Testimony of Felchner |
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Lindqvist, Albert Gustaf |
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Lindstrom, Artur |
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Lindstrom, Goesta
Nils |
Born 1920. May-July 1949 in Camp 7062/13 Kiev. |
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Lonnberg, Gustav
Hermann |
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Lundberg, Manfred |
Held in Focsani, Rumania. Released
by 1946. |
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Lundgren |
Same as EICHENBAUM? |
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Lundquist, Erik Joergen |
Born 1918, Danish Private Sentenced on March 12,
1949 by Military Tribunal in Kharkov to 25 years |
Confirmed from Swedish archives |
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Lundqvist, Paul
Eric |
Possibly Danish. In Sverdlovsk 1955, previously in
Vorkuta and Inta. |
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Lonnberg, Gustav
Hermann |
Fisherman, Vorkuta |
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Lynkow, Olof |
Born 1911, allegedly served as
consular Secretary in Stuhlweissenbur. Had wife and three children. Interned in 1944 by Soviet troops |
Name & identity unconfirmed |
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Magnusson, Otto |
Seen in Kistarca
Hungary in 1951. |
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Mandula, Georg |
Hungarian, employee of Tungsram/Oion who pretended to
be Swedish. |
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Maximoff, Vasily |
A Finn held in Vladimir Prison |
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Mikkelsen, Axel |
Dane who worked for the German
Red Cross, arrested in Budapest in 1945. |
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Mueller-Jernstad,
Walter |
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Jesinger-Myrman, Charlie
(Karl Richard) |
Born 1920. Blond, blue eyes.Arrested
in Berlin in 1945 attached to the Swedish Consulate. In Vorkuta in 1948, INTA
in 1955. |
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Nagy, Karl |
Abducted in 1949 in Vienna.
Stateless |
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Niedre, Laimons |
Unclear if actually Swedish. Held in Camp 385/5. In 1979, released
for health reasons. |
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Nielsen, Erik Henrik |
Born 1923. Danish. Squad commander in SS Division Nordland, sentenced on April 6, 1950 by the Military
Tribunal in Kiev to 25 years. |
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Nielsen/Nilsson, Paul |
Vladimir, INTA |
Testimony of Kelly |
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Nielsen, Paul |
Danish, sentenced at a military
tribunal in the German occupational zone in Germany on 18.3.1948 as an
American spy |
Danish archives |
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Nilsson-Gulbransson |
Norilsk |
Testimony by Manfred |
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Nilsson, Borje |
Born 1923. Crew of the DC – 3. |
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Nommik, August |
Born 1903 or 1923. Estonian |
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Nordstrom, Paul |
Mechanic/driver seen in Krasnogorsk in 1947, released in 1948. |
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Nordstrom, Sven/Sverre |
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Oldenberg, Olae |
Elderly Swede held in Moscow
State University closed psychiatric ward. Had to teach Swedish to security
officers. |
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Oldenstrom, Leopold |
Died in captivity in 1942 |
Possibly identical with Andstrom. |
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Olsson |
Fisherman. Not sentenced. Said to have been in
Vorkuta in 1949 according to a report released in 1955 |
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Olsson, Stig
Lennart |
Born 1923. |
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Von Ottingen,
Dietrich, Carl Arthur |
Born 1908. Married to a Swede. Physicist. Arrested
in 1945. |
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Palffy, Karoly |
Head of Swedish spy ring in
Central Europe after 1953. Not
clear if in captivity. |
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Palmkron, Bernard |
Estonian Swede, held in Vorkuta |
Testimony of Gottlieb |
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Patterson or Peterssen |
A Swedish intelligence man sent
to the Far East early on (mid to late 40s) |
American intelligence |
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Persson, Gosta |
Per testimony of returned Danish prisoners
of war |
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Persson, Sten |
Seen in Kistarca,
Hungary in 1951. |
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Petterson, Oscar |
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Poska, Jan |
Married to a Swede. Arrested in 1944 and held in Vorkuta
and Omsk, may have been released in 1957 or died. |
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Quist, Sven Ebbe |
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“Raulsson” |
Seen twice by witness in the
Gulag - once in transit depot Moscow and the other in a camp near Perm |
Testimony of Babko |
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Rennberg, Viktor |
Born 1909. Finn. Arrested 1944. |
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Rosvaenge, Helge |
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Rudkovski, Arnold |
Born 1905. A Swede who served in
the German Army, captured 1945 in Czechoslovakia, transferred to Repatriation
camp in 1949. |
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Af Sandeberg, Evald |
Swedish journalist; Moscow
Prisons and Camp 27 |
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Sandberg, Paul |
Kistarca Hungary |
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Sandell,
Tor-Bjorn |
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Sandersson, Ola |
Born 1922. Held in Lubyanka/Lefortovo. Identity unconfirmed. Possibly identical with Anderson |
Testimony of De Latry |
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Sareld, Bengt |
Arrested in 1977. Together with Nils-Erik Engstrom.
Released same year. |
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Sarfeld, Arnd |
Arrested 1946 in Berlin,
sentenced to 10 years at age 25, in Taishet in
1950. |
Identical with Walther? |
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Seefeld, Erich
Edgar |
In Orel in 1945. Died. |
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Sather, Ingvald |
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Schmitt, Erik |
Born 1876 |
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Sigalet, Smil |
Born 1926. A Russian citizen who served in the
German army, arrested in Austria in 1945. |
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Sigrinholm |
See KRENHOLM |
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Singler, Bukhe |
Born 1923. |
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Stark, Otto |
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Stavanger, Karl Johan |
Kiev |
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Svensson, August |
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Svensson, Ernst |
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Svensson, Gustaf H |
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Szabo, Arpad |
Born in 1920, served in the
Hungarian Army, arrested in 1945. |
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Tanzer, Hans |
Born 1920. Photographer arrested in May 1945 in
Czechoslovakia, released in 1955. |
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Tamvelius, Artur |
May 2, 1907. Returned 1956. |
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Tent, Victor |
Estonian., father
owned a canning factory. Came to Sweden in 1944 and left in 1950 in Vorkuta --
1954. |
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Thomsen, Alexander |
Danish. In Soviet captivity between 1945 and
1955 in Potma, Abez,
Vorkuta. |
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Tonnison, Peter |
Estonian, arrested in Berlin in
1948 |
Testimony of Von Schwab |
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Tonisson, Jasper Peet |
Born 1912, arrested April 4,
1950; Sentenced on July 26, 1950 to 25 plus 5 years. In 1955 his sentence was commuted to
five plus two years. Died in captivity on May 4, 1956. |
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Triborn, Harald |
Born 1918 – parents
allegedly Swedish. Blond blue
eyes, arrested in Berlin. Seen in
Sverdolvsk. |
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Truck, Walter R |
Born 1923. Swedish soldier, arrested in October
1944. |
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Wagner |
Norilsk |
Sanitatsdienst |
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Wahlberg, Frans Oscar |
Born 1900. Swedish/Finnish volunteer in SS,
captured and released in 1946. |
Testimony of Manfred |
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Wahlstrom/Wallstrom |
Seen in Vorkuta 1948-1950 |
Possibly identical with Rudolph
Axel Wahlstrom |
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Waldenberg |
With two Swedish officers and the
fisherman Olsson |
Testimony of Gerhard Leibnitz |
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Wallberg |
Lwow- 1947 |
Testimony of Gustav Schmidt |
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Wallenberg, Raoul
H. |
Born 1913. 1955 entry in Norilsk. |
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Von Wallenberg, Baron |
Vorkuta-Shaft 8 – October
1949. Had dark hair |
Testimony of H. Schneider |
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Von Wallenberg, Baron |
Vorkuta Rechnoi
Camp 6 |
Testimony of Gerhard Leibnitz |
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Wallenberg, Graf |
Seen in Inta
in 1958 and Asbest |
Testimony of Wegener |
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Wallenbergis, Raul |
Gorky Region – 1955. Folk group of men’s choir
performed at a woman’s camp. Although allegedly Lithuanian, sang a Swedish
song. Photo provided of group through
witness |
Testimony of Shinkarenko |
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Waiso, August |
Born 1902. Prisoner card mentions Uppsala. Released in 1948. |
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Waldheim |
Norilsk |
Sanitatsdienst |
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Walter, Egon
Alexander |
Born 1920. Arrested in Manchuria in 1945;
sentenced to 25 years. Norilsk |
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Wiffert, Karl
Ernst |
Born 1898 Danish. Colonel in SS division Wiking, sentenced on April 5, 1950 by the Military
Tribunal in Kiev to 25 years. |
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Wilborg, Raoul orWilberg, Raoul |
Red Cross chief in Prague. Held in Taishet
in 1953 |
Testimony of Bornschein |
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Wrangel, Boris
or Klaus |
Belgian Swede |
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Zelts, Walter |
May be German |
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Zheldovsky, Franz |
Born 1902. Arrested in 1945 |
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Zingler |
See SINGLER |
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