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NY Lander, Swedish Diplomat Who Saved Jews from Nazis, Dies in U.S.

July 18, 1966
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A retired Swedish diplomat, who was decorated by Belgium and Finland for saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis, died of a stroke in Greenwich hospital here last Friday, at the age of 65. Lennart K. Nylander, who was Swedish Ambassador to Mexico and later Sweden’s consul general in New York until 1955, lived in retirement in Greenwich. His efforts for Jews took placed during the war when he was a counselor with the Swedish legation in Berlin.

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