1. Nina Viveka Maria Lagergren was a Swedish businesswoman and the half-sister of Raoul Wallenberg, and the leading force to find out what happened to him after his disappearance.
10 Facts About Nina Lagergren
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Nina Lagergren was the founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Academy.
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Nina Lagergren presented Sommar i P1 in 2014 on Swedish Radio.
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In 2000, Lagergren was awarded the Wallenberg Medal, which was presented to her by the University of Michigan.
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Nina Lagergren was the presenter of an episode of Sommar i P1 at Sveriges Radio on 4 August 2014 where she told about her life and her work to find out what had happened to her half-brother.
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Nina Lagergren concluded that Wallenberg died in 1947, executed while a prisoner in Lubyanka.
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Nina Lagergren continued to work with this information throughout her life, searching for details about his fate.
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Nina Lagergren was married to judge and marshal Gunnar Lagergren from 1943 until his death in 2008, and the couple had four children together.
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Nina Lagergren was the mother-in-law of Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the UN, who was married to her eldest daughter Nane Nina Lagergren Annan.
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Nina Lagergren was part of the opening of the exhibition of his art work at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2014.