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    'The mystery must be resolved': what befell Swede who saved Hungarian Jews?

    Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died
    by Jon Henley Sep 23, 2019 5 minutes
    Marie von Dardel-Dupuy: ‘I want specific answers to specific questions.’ Photograph: Richard Juillart/AFP

    Seventy-five years after the amateur Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg embarked on his desperate mission to rescue Budapest’s Jews, his descendants still do not know how, when or why he died.

    This week, they are travelling to Stockholm to demand the government finally does a bit more to help them find out.

    “I want specific answers to specific questions,” said Marie von Dardel-Dupuy, the niece of the young architect and businessman whose bold if haphazard humanitarian operation is thought to have saved the lives of as many as 30,000 Hungarian Jews as the second world war neared its end.

    Von Dardel-Dupuy, who lives in Switzerland, told the Guardian: “He was a great man who wasn’t afraid to do the impossible. He deserves for us to know what happened to him. His story is

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