Valdemar Langlet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Valdemar Langlet

Swedish Righteous Among the Nations, publisher and Esperantist

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1872

Place of Birth: Lerbo socken, Södermanland County, Sweden

Date of Death: 16-Oct-1960

Profession: writer, diplomat, translator, Esperantist, editor, journalist, publisher

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Valdemar Langlet [lan’lé] (December 17, 1872 in Lerbo, Sweden – October 16, 1960 in Stockholm) was a Swedish publisher, and an early Esperantist.
With his wife Nina Borovko-Langlet 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.