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3 unusual facts about Olof Aschberg


Ashberg Diamond

In 1934 the Russian Trade Delegation sold the diamond to Mr. Ashberg, a leading Stockholm banker.

Olof Aschberg

At the end of the 1920s Aschberg moved to France, where he bought Château du Bois du Rocher at Jouy-en-Josas, in 1950 offered to the Unesco and subsequently sold to the Yvelines department.

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In 1946 he started publishing his memoirs in three volumes (En vandrande jude från Glasbruksgatan, Återkomsten, and Gästboken) and he invited Margarete Buber-Neumann to write there Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler.



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