During his career at Ajax, he amassed a total of almost 600 matches, a record for the club.

Swart is Jewish[1][2] and was born in Muiderberg, a fishing village about 20 kilometers east of Amsterdam.

[4][2] As a child, he and his father concealed themselves as non-Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands from 1940 to 1945, hiding from Germans and Dutch colluders, who rounded up any Jews; nearly 75 per cent of the Dutch Jewish population was killed in those years.

[4] For the Netherlands national team, Swart earned 31 caps, scoring ten goals.

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