Baroness Nelly de Rothschild, wife of Baron Robert de Rothschild, died at Roosevelt Hospital here yesterday after an illness of several months. She was 58. Baroness Rothschild was active in Jewish and general charities in France until she and her husband were forced to flee from the Nazis in 1940, and had done war work and engaged in charitable activities here.
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