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Jewish Editor and Leader of German Jews in Buenos Aires Dies at 65

December 6, 1968
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Dr. Hardi Swarsensky, editor of the German-Jewish weekly, Juedische Wochenschau and leader of the German Jewish colony in Buenos Aires, died here today of a heart attack. He was 65.

Born in Berlin, Dr. Swarsensky studied at the Berlin, Munich and Leipzig universities, graduating as an attorney. During his career in Germany until 1939, he was a leader of the Maccabi and member of its world organization. In 1937 he was named general secretary of all Jewish juvenile organizations in Germany and chairman of the committee for the rescue of Jews imprisoned in Nazi camps. He fled to London in 1939 and in 1940 settled here. He was editor of a number of books on Zionist matters.

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