During the war, Viktoria Kolzer lived in Berlin with her husband Jean. She worked as a cashier at a small movie theater. Their son was a soldier on the front. At the home of acquaintances, the…
The doctor Bergljot Horne, a great admirer of King Haakon VII, was not only active in the Nansen Relief organization for refugees and stateless persons, but also involved in other resistance…
Betzy Rosenberg lived in Trondheim with her large family. She left school at the age of 14 and helped in her grandfather’s clothing store. It was there she met Arne Haug-Rønning, a customer.
In…
When anti-Semitic attacks increased in Bratislava, nine-year-old Edgar’s parents decided to send him to Norway. A Norwegian foundation known as Nansen Relief for refugees and stateless persons placed…
The doctor Kari Øpstad lived in Fusa in German-occupied Norway. There were no German troops stationed in this remote region, and only few Norwegian Nazis. Despite fuel shortages, Øpstad paid many…
Born in St. Petersburg, the Jewish child psychologist Nina Hackel settled in Berlin in 1918. She met the Norwegian doctor Caroline (Nic) Hoel there, who helped her to emigrate to Norway in 1936.
To…
In 1938 nine-year-old Siegmund Korn and his twin brother Norbert arrived in Norway, along with around 20 other Jewish children from Vienna and Czechoslovakia. The Jewish community in Oslo placed them…
Sigrid Helliesen Lund was a board member of the Nansen Relief organization for refugees and stateless persons in Oslo. A trained singer and pacifist, she was also active in the International Women’s…
The journalist Tove Filseth worked as a secretary for the Nansen Relief organization for refugees and stateless persons in Oslo. She knew the Nansen family personally. In early 1939 she went to stay…
Because she was Jewish, Hildegard (Hilde) Grau had to perform forced labor from 1940 for the Zeiss Ikon company in Berlin-Friedenau. In around December 1942 she went into hiding, as did her mother,…
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