Thousands of Jews escaped deportation to Auschwitz because Wallenberg gave them Swedish protective passes.
His story became legendary after 1945.
The former Soviet authorities said he must have died in a Moscow prison in 1947.
But his family were sceptical about that version of events, and spent decades trying to establish what actually happened to him.
Last year they called on the Tax Agency to officially declare him dead.
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