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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.

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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