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- ↑ Knight, Amy (2001-09-20). "The Truth about Wallenberg". New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504 . Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ↑ Makinen, Marvin W.; Kaplan, Ari D. (2000-12-15). Cell Occupancy Analysis of Korpus 2 of the Vladimir Prison: An Examination of the Consistency of Eyewitness Sightings of Raoul Wallenberg with Prisoner Registration Cards from the Prison Kartoteka (PDF).
