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Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 82, 13/09/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Carrying out detentions in Norway due to curfew violations; reaction of the population over the declaration of a state of emergency; detention of Professor Seip, Rector of Oslo University on charges of organizing a resistance organization; dismantling of the Volkshilfe and Nationalhilfe organizations (social welfare organizations supporting immigrants and...

File Number : 164.82

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 41, 02/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Decision by the Reich Commissioner (Reichskommissar) to publish an order prepared in advance regarding an emergency situation following acts of sabotage and hostile attitudes of part of the population in Norway; order from the Police and SS Commander regarding the confiscation of radio transmitters in certain areas in Norway in order to lessen the...

File Number : 163.41

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Jakub Walcer, born in Lubaczow, Poland regarding his experiences in Krakow, Podgorze, Rudawa, Smardzewice and in hiding in the Krakow area

Testimony of Jakub Walcer, born in Lubaczow, Poland regarding his experiences in Krakow, Podgorze, Rudawa, Smardzewice and in hiding in the Krakow area Life in Germany; deportation from Germany due to his Polish citizenship, May 1939 [was he not deported in October 1938 with the deportation of German Jews of Polish origin?]; life in Krakow. The German occupation; deportation to Podgorze four weeks later; life in Podgorze, including forced labor; deportation order to Jews not employed in fixed labor assignments, issued eight months later; transfer to Rudawa near Krzeszowice; life in Krzeszowice, including...

File Number : 226

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Memoirs of Norwegian underground activists Odd Westeng and Alf M. Bredesen regarding smuggling those persecuted by the Nazi regime from Norway into Sweden in 1942-1944

Memoirs of Norwegian underground activists Odd Westeng and Alf M. Bredesen regarding smuggling those persecuted by the Nazi regime from Norway into Sweden in 1942-1944 Odd Westeng's stay in the Grini camp in 1942; the arrival of Odd Westeng and Alf Bredesen from Oslo to the area near the border between Norway and Sweden in 1942, under the false identity of loggers; organization of the smuggling route; accompanying groups of people persecuted by the Nazi regime into Swedish territory; move to Sweden in September 1944; Anti-Nazi underground activity until the end of the war.

File Number : 11636

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Silia GorlenTzenturi, born in 1928 in Oslo, about her experiences in Norway and Sweden

Testimony of Silia GorlenTzenturi, born in 1928 in Oslo, about her experiences in Norway and Sweden Information about the family; grandfather: a textile merchant; mother: singer with the Norwegian Philharmonic Orchestra; visiting a cheder; description of festivals; German occupation ensues in 1940; obtaining food by means of ration cards; finding a hideout for ten days with a Norwegian policeman named Lund; father finds a hideout with the help of a watchmaker named Swenson; receiving information about the situation on the front; escaping to a Swedish family in Oslo; escaping to Kongsvinger; escaping to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English