Robert Lewin
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Robert Lewin (1918-17 May 2004), was born in Warsaw the son of a Polish-Jewish banker. Fleeing east after the German invasion of Poland, he survived the war after managing to get a Japanese visa from the consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, the 'Japanese Schindler,' Chiune Sugihara. He later became an important art dealer in London and a noted philanthropist, endowing a chair of Philosophy at Pembroke College, Oxford, and a gallery at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. He also made important bequests to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He died on 17 May 2004 at the Hospital of St. John and St. Elisabeth. London.
Bob Lewin is buried in Israel. He is survived by his younger brother Michel, who now lives in New York. (August 2004)
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