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Paul Olberg

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Name
  
Paul Olberg

Role
  
Journalist

Paul Olberg (1878–1960), born in Jakobstadt (someone else said Riga), Latvia, was a Latvian journalist and a Menshevik. In 1917, after the October Revolution, went into exile in Berlin, where he lived for many years. He worked as a correspondent for Swedish social democratic newspapers. In 1933, he fled to Stockholm; that year, he became Secretary of the Stockholm-based Socialist Rescue Committee for German Refugees.

Olberg was Scandinavian representative of the Jewish Labor Committee, and headed the JLC's Stockholm office; from 1945, he coordinated the JLC's postwar services to refugees in Scandinavia.

In 1957 Olberg was a member of the coordinating committee of the International Jewish Labor Bund.

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Paul Olberg Wikipedia


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