Editing Raoul Wallenberg (section)

=== Disputes about his death ===
[[File:Woollahra-NSW-Raoul-Wallenberg-plaque-May-2020.jpg|thumb|A plaque in Wallenberg's honour in [[Woollahra, New South Wales|Woollahra]], [[New South Wales]] that claims that, as of 1985, he was "still behind prison bars in the U.S.S.R."]]
Several former prisoners have claimed to have seen Wallenberg after his reported death in 1947.<ref>{{cite news| url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4181427.stm|title=Search for Swedish Holocaust hero|date=17 January 2005|work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> In February 1949, former German Colonel [[Theodor von Dufving]], a [[prisoner of war]], provided statements concerning Wallenberg. In the transit camp of [[Kirov, Kirov Oblast|Kirov]], while being moved to [[Vorkuta]], Dufving encountered a prisoner dressed in civilian clothes with his own special guard. The prisoner claimed that he was a Swedish diplomat and said he was there "through a great error".<ref name= chron3>{{cite web| url= http://www.raoulwallenberg.org/who/stone.html |title= Chronology – Who is Raoul Wallenberg?| website= raoulwallenberg.org| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081010185251/http://www.raoulwallenberg.org/who/stone.html| archive-date= 10 October 2008| publisher= The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States| access-date= 19 September 2008}}</ref>

[[Nazi hunter]] [[Simon Wiesenthal]] searched for Wallenberg and collected several testimonies. For example, British businessman [[Greville Wynne]], who was imprisoned in the Lubyanka prison in 1962 for his connection to [[KGB]] [[defector]] [[Oleg Penkovsky]], stated that he had talked to, but could not see the face of, a man who claimed to be a Swedish diplomat.<ref name="Alan Levy 20032">{{cite book|title=Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File| last= Levy| first= Alan| publisher= Robinson| year=2003|location=London}}</ref> Efim (or Yefim) Moshinsky claims to have seen Wallenberg on [[Wrangel Island]] in 1962.<ref name= "mystery lives 164">{{cite book| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=eFDNcB4NGdQC|title=Raoul Wallenberg: The Mystery Lives On| last= Rosenfeld| first= Harvey| publisher= iUniverse| year= 2005| isbn= 978-0-595-35544-0|page=164}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Raoul Wallenberg Is Alive! The Amazing Autobiography of the KGB Officer Who Arrested Him in 1945| last= Moshinsky| first= Efim| publisher= Rescue Publishing |year= 1987| location= Jerusalem}}</ref> An eyewitness asserted that she had seen Wallenberg in the 1960s in a Soviet prison where she worked.<ref name="AP 0428082">{{cite news| url= https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-28-4012326126_x.htm | first1= Arthur |last1= Max |first2= Randy |last2= Herschaft| title= Scholars run down more clues to abiding Holocaust mystery| agency= Associated Press |work= [[USA Today]] |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090226225733/http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-28-4012326126_x.htm| archive-date= 26 February 2009| date= 28 April 2008| url-status= live| access-date= 11 August 2020| quote= In December 1993, investigator Marvin Makinen of the University of Chicago interviewed Varvara Larina, a retiree who began working as an orderly at Moscow's Vladimir Prison in 1946.}}</ref>

During a private conversation about the conditions of detention in Soviet prisons at a Communist Party reception in the mid-1970s, a KGB general is reported to have said that "conditions could not be that harsh, given that in Lubyanka prison there is some foreign prisoner who had been there now for almost three decades."<ref name="Alan Levy 20032" />

The last reported sightings of Wallenberg were by two independent witnesses who said they had evidence that he was in prison in November 1987.<ref>{{cite news| url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1D71439F93BA1575BC0A966958260|title=Soviets Open Prisons and Records to Inquiry on Wallenberg's Fate |last= Keller| first= Bill| date= 28 August 1990 |newspaper= The New York Times |access-date=13 February 2007}}</ref> John Farkas was a [[resistance fighter]] during World War II and was the last man claiming to have seen Wallenberg alive. Farkas' son has stated that there have been sightings of Wallenberg "up into the 1980s in Soviet prisons and [[psychiatric hospital]]s."<ref name="SMH2">{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/man-who-rescued-jews-becomes-australias-first-honorary-citizen-20130506-2j2yr.html|title=Man who rescued Jews becomes Australia's first honorary citizen| last= Ireland| first= Judith| date=6 May 2013|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|access-date=6 May 2013}}</ref>