The Holocaust in Norway
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The German occupation of Norway began on 9 April 1940. In 1942, there were at least 2,173 Jews in Norway. At least 775 of them were arrested, detained and/or deported. More than half of the Norwegians
Who's Who in the Jewish World, an attache to an antisemitic periodical listing Jews and presumed Jews in Norway. First edition printed in 1925.
The estimate of numbers of Jews presented at the Wannsee Conference, which incorrectly estimated the number of Jews in Norway as 1,300.
May 1940, only two months after the German occupation started, the German commander in Fredrikstad put up the sign with the warning "Jewish Shop" in Norwegian and German.
Memorial plaque at Stabekk elementary school over three children who were taken out of their classrooms and sent to Auschwitz
Bjørn Westlie
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Bjørn Petter Westlie is a Norwegian journalist, historian, university college lecturer and non-fiction writer.
Photo from 2014
