page_title: Paul Olberg
hierarchical_section_title: Paul Olberg
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the Latvian-Swedish writer and journalist Paul Olberg (1878–1960).
context_page_description: Paul Olberg, born in Jēkabpils, Latvia, was a Latvian-born German-Swedish 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.
context_section_description: Paul Olberg (1878–1960), born in Jēkabpils, Latvia, was a Latvian-born German-Swedish 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.
caption: Paul Olberg.
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