Leonie Rosner grew up in Leipzig. After training as a kindergarten teacher, she worked in the Auerbach Jewish orphanage in Berlin. She met Walter Frankenstein there, a former charge still living in…
The Jewish writer and professor of literature Erich Hopp lived with his wife Charlotte and their son Wolfgang in Berlin-Friedenau. He had to perform forced labor from 1940. The family was threatened…
Lena Kropveld and her husband, the rabbi Yitzack Jedwab, had to go into hiding to evade the deportations beginning in July 1942. They paid a family to stay on their farm in Lintelo. Lena…
In the fall of 1942, hundreds of Jews went into hiding in Norway in an attempt to evade deportation. This situation gave rise to Norway’s largest rescue campaign, under the codename of Carl…
Eugénie Pardo lived with her husband Chaim and their three children in Thessaloniki, Greece’s largest Jewish community. Chaim Pardo was a businessman and had run an electrical installation company…
Giorgos Karakotsos lived in Thessaloniki with his wife Phaedra and their son Philon. Giorgios Karakotsos ran a medical practice and had Jewish patients and acquaintances.
After the city’s German…
Denise Pardo was the youngest daughter of the businessman Chaim Pardo and his wife Eugénie Pardo. The family lived in Thessaloniki. In February 1943 the parents had to move to the ghetto with their…
When the Norwegian Nansen Relief organization for refugees and stateless persons was looking for families to host refugee children from Slovakia, Agnes and Arne Normann from Laksevåg signed up. The…
Born in north Norway, the engineer Arne Normann agreed to his wife Agnes’s suggestion to take in a Jewish refugee child from Slovakia. In October 1939, nine-year-old Edgar Brichta came to live with…
The teacher Aslaug Blytt from Bergen headed her local Nansen Relief group for refugees and stateless persons. She spent months collecting donations and looking for foster parents for Jewish refugee…
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