Valdemar Langlet
Swedish publisher
Died when: 87 years 304 days (1053 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Valdemar Langlet (Swedish: [lan'lé];December 17, 1872 in , Sweden – October 16, 1960 in Stockholm) was a Swedish publisher, and an early Esperantist.With his wife in Budapest, he is credited with saving many Jews from the Holocaust, by providing Swedish documents saying that people were waiting for Swedish nationality.
Raoul Wallenberg was inspired by Langlet and used the same method to save Jewish people when he came to Budapest.
In 1965, Valdemar and Nina Langlet were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
Related People
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License