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Eggen Kjell ; Father: Staal ; Mother: Anna (Holst)
Righteous
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Hougen Helga
Righteous
Hougen, Bjørn Hougen, Torbjørg Hougen, Helga Hougen, Helga In the early morning of October 26, 1942, Håkon Laksov, b.1911, a lawyer and father of two-year-old Dan, was arrested along with the other Jewish men in Oslo, among them four relatives, brothers of his wife Amalie (née Dotten). The Laksov family’s assets were frozen, and from then on Amalie had to report to the local police on a daily basis. She brought a blanket for her husband to no avail, and never got to see him again. Håkon was deported on November 26, 1942 to Stettin (Szczecin), Poland, aboard the SS Donau and then by train...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Hougen Helga
Righteous
Hougen, Bjørn Hougen, Torbjørg Hougen, Helga Hougen, Helga In the early morning of October 26, 1942, Håkon Laksov, b.1911, a lawyer and father of two-year-old Dan, was arrested along with the other Jewish men in Oslo, among them four relatives, brothers of his wife Amalie (née Dotten). The Laksov family’s assets were frozen, and from then on Amalie had to report to the local police on a daily basis. She brought a blanket for her husband to no avail, and never got to see him again. Håkon was deported on November 26, 1942 to Stettin (Szczecin), Poland, aboard the SS Donau and then by train...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Hougen Bjørn & Torbjorg
Righteous
Hougen, Bjørn Hougen, Torbjørg Hougen, Helga Hougen, Helga In the early morning of October 26, 1942, Håkon Laksov, b.1911, a lawyer and father of two-year-old Dan, was arrested along with the other Jewish men in Oslo, among them four relatives, brothers of his wife Amalie (née Dotten). The Laksov family’s assets were frozen, and from then on Amalie had to report to the local police on a daily basis. She brought a blanket for her husband to no avail, and never got to see him again. Håkon was deported on November 26, 1942 to Stettin (Szczecin), Poland, aboard the SS Donau and then by train...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Sorensen Randi
Righteous
Ingvild Furre Randi Sorensen Roas Paikin-Tankus was born in 1923. In October 1942 her father Isja and brother Ivar, aged 16, were arrested in the roundup of Jewish men and taken to a camp in Berg, 100 km from Oslo. One month later they were put on the Ship Donau and deported to Poland. Both perished in Auschwitz. At the very time the ship with the deported men left Oslo, the arrest of Jewish women and children began. On 25 November, at 11 p.m. at night, Ingvild Furre knocked on the door of the Paikin family on Brugatan no. 9. They had never met the woman before, but she introduced...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Furre Ingvild
Righteous
Ingvild Furre Randi Sorensen Roas Paikin-Tankus was born in 1923. In October 1942 her father Isja and brother Ivar, aged 16, were arrested in the roundup of Jewish men and taken to a camp in Berg, 100 km from Oslo. One month later they were put on the Ship Donau and deported to Poland. Both perished in Auschwitz. At the very time the ship with the deported men left Oslo, the arrest of Jewish women and children began. On 25 November, at 11 p.m. at night, Ingvild Furre knocked on the door of the Paikin family on Brugatan no. 9. They had never met the woman before, but she introduced...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Skogstad Iver & Marta
Righteous
Kari Pattersen Musaeus Iver & Martha Skogstad On 26 and 27 October 1942 the police arrested male Jews in Oslo. Women and children were only rounded up in the next wave of arrests, but not knowing the German plans, panic spread among the Jews. When Solveig Levin reached her home, a neighbor told her that the police had come by. Not daring to go into her home, Levin stayed outside on the street, her panic mounting. Her baby daughter, Mona, was at the baby sitter, and she asked the sitter to bring the child to a certain meeting point. In her testimony Levin described her enormous fright -...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Imprisoned
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Pettersen Kari (Musaeus)
Righteous
Kari Pattersen Musaeus Iver & Martha Skogstad On 26 and 27 October 1942 the police arrested male Jews in Oslo. Women and children were only rounded up in the next wave of arrests, but not knowing the German plans, panic spread among the Jews. When Solveig Levin reached her home, a neighbor told her that the police had come by. Not daring to go into her home, Levin stayed outside on the street, her panic mounting. Her baby daughter, Mona, was at the baby sitter, and she asked the sitter to bring the child to a certain meeting point. In her testimony Levin described her enormous fright -...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Michelsen Bjørn & Astrid (Stokke); Father: August
Righteous
Michelsen, Björn Michelsen-Stokke, Astrid Harriet Michelsen, August Björn Michelsen, living in Oslo with his wife Astrid, was a member of the Norwegian Underground, “Milorg”. With the start of the arrests of Jewish men in the capital on October 26, 1942, John Jakobson contacted Astrid, a friend of his from the time they were both living in Trondheim, telling her of his fear of arrest. Astrid immediately arranged a car to pick him up as well as for his wife Chesne and three of his relatives, Adolf Bekker, Bernhard Playdal (Plesansky), and Rosa Plesansky and bring them to her home in Oslo. Due of...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Imprisoned
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Volder Ragna
Righteous
Ragna Volder On 26 October 1942 Jewish males were rounded up in Oslo, resulting in enormous fear among all Jews. Sara Ernst, whose daughter had shortly before married a Norwegian Christian, turned to her in-law – the mother of her new son-in-law, Ragna Volder and asked her for help. Volder did not hesitate and sheltered Sara in her home for several weeks until contact was made with the Norwegian underground and Sara could be taken to Sweden. With a group of other Jews she was hidden in a truck, covered by straw and other items. In the group was a mother with her small children. The children were...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Faye Per
Righteous
Per Faye-Hansen When the arrests of Jews in Oslo began in October 1942, Gabriel Stiris, a medical student, decided to go into hiding. He was helped by one of his lecturers, who had him hospitalized as an ulcer patient. Gabriel soon discovered that the doctor was a member of the local resistance movement. A few days later, Gabriel was picked up from the hospital by Per Faye Hansen, who took him to a temporary hiding place in a flower shop in Majorstuen, where Gabriel met other Jews who were seeking refuge. Per Faye Hansen meticulously arranged the escape of this group of Jews to Sweden with...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Breisjoberget Ola
Righteous
Nina Hackel-Hasvold Nic Waal Martin Solvang Gerda Tanberg Ola Rauken Ola Breisjoberget Before Norway was occupied by the Germans, the Jewish community in Oslo established a home for Jewish children who had been brought from Austria and Prague in 1938 and 1939. Following the German occupation, the Germans and their Norwegian collaborators forced the return of eight of these children to their families. All of them perished in the Holocaust. 13 children remained in the orphanage in Oslo. Nina Hackel Hasvol was the director of the institution. She had been born in St...
Nationality : Norway
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Rauken Ola
Righteous
Nina Hackel-Hasvold Nic Waal Martin Solvang Gerda Tanberg Ola Rauken Ola Breisjoberget Before Norway was occupied by the Germans, the Jewish community in Oslo established a home for Jewish children who had been brought from Austria and Prague in 1938 and 1939. Following the German occupation, the Germans and their Norwegian collaborators forced the return of eight of these children to their families. All of them perished in the Holocaust. 13 children remained in the orphanage in Oslo. Nina Hackel Hasvol was the director of the institution. She had been born in St...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Helliesen Sigrid
Righteous
Sigrid Helliesen-Lund Sigrid Hjelliesen-Lund was born in 1892 to a Swedish mother and a Norwegian father. Her activity on behalf of persecuted Jews began in 1939, when she was involved in bringing Jewish children from Prague to Norway. She was very active in the maintenance of the Jewish orphanage, where these children and other refugees lived, supported by the Jewish community. Following the German occupation and the beginning of the deportations of the Jews from Norway, she became involved in smuggling these children into safety in Sweden. On 25 October 1942, Sigrid Helliesen-Lund, who was...
Nationality : Norway
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Fate : Survived
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Kleivan Kare
Righteous
Nikolai & Anny Nilsen and their children Edmund, Nordal, Jenny and Pauline Markus Rotvold Kare Kleivan The Smith family lived in Tromso, in the north of Norway. The parents of Herman (born 1907) had emigrated from the Baltic countries, first to Scotland, where they changed their name from Scmitke to Smith, and then to Norway, where Herman was born. After the German occupation of Norway, Herman warned his fellow Jews in the small community of Tromso of what he believed to be a great danger. He decided not to wait and soon after the occupation of Norway took his family – his...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Rotvold Markus
Righteous
Nikolai & Anny Nilsen and their children Edmund, Nordal, Jenny and Pauline Markus Rotvold Kare Kleivan The Smith family lived in Tromso, in the north of Norway. The parents of Herman (born 1907) had emigrated from the Baltic countries, first to Scotland, where they changed their name from Scmitke to Smith, and then to Norway, where Herman was born. After the German occupation of Norway, Herman warned his fellow Jews in the small community of Tromso of what he believed to be a great danger. He decided not to wait and soon after the occupation of Norway took his family – his...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Nilsen Nikolai & Anny ; Son: Nordal ; Son: Edmund ; Daughter: Brovold Pauline (Nilsen); Daughter: Velle Jenny (Nilsen)
Righteous
Nikolai & Anny Nilsen and their children Edmund, Nordal, Jenny and Pauline Markus Rotvold Kare Kleivan The Smith family lived in Tromso, in the north of Norway. The parents of Herman (born 1907) had emigrated from the Baltic countries, first to Scotland, where they changed their name from Scmitke to Smith, and then to Norway, where Herman was born. After the German occupation of Norway, Herman warned his fellow Jews in the small community of Tromso of what he believed to be a great danger. He decided not to wait and soon after the occupation of Norway took his family – his...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Declared Dead
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Sjolie Oscar & Frida
Righteous
Sjølie, Oscar Sjølie, Frida At the end of October 1942, Oscar and Frida Sjølie of Oslo were approached by their friend, Harald Lund, the head of police in Lillestrøm, just outside of Oslo. He had received information that Jewish men were to be rounded up on the 26th of that month. He asked the Sjølie couple to warn Rebecca and David Century and their two daughters, Berit and Celia. The Sjølies not only warned them, but decided to take David into their own home. He stayed with them until an escape to neutral Sweden could be arranged a month later. Later, in August 1944, Harald Lund had to escape to...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Tanberg Gerda
Righteous
Nina Hackel-Hasvold Nic Waal Martin Solvang Gerda Tanberg Ola Rauken Ola Breisjoberget Before Norway was occupied by the Germans, the Jewish community in Oslo established a home for Jewish children who had been brought from Austria and Prague in 1938 and 1939. Following the German occupation, the Germans and their Norwegian collaborators forced the return of eight of these children to their families. All of them perished in the Holocaust. 13 children remained in the orphanage in Oslo. Nina Hackel Hasvol was the director of the institution. She had been born in St...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Solvang Martin
Righteous
Nina Hackel-Hasvold Nic Waal Martin Solvang Gerda Tanberg Ola Rauken Ola Breisjoberget Before Norway was occupied by the Germans, the Jewish community in Oslo established a home for Jewish children who had been brought from Austria and Prague in 1938 and 1939. Following the German occupation, the Germans and their Norwegian collaborators forced the return of eight of these children to their families. All of them perished in the Holocaust. 13 children remained in the orphanage in Oslo. Nina Hackel Hasvol was the director of the institution. She had been born in St...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Waal Nic
Righteous
Nina Hackel-Hasvold Nic Waal Martin Solvang Gerda Tanberg Ola Rauken Ola Breisjoberget Before Norway was occupied by the Germans, the Jewish community in Oslo established a home for Jewish children who had been brought from Austria and Prague in 1938 and 1939. Following the German occupation, the Germans and their Norwegian collaborators forced the return of eight of these children to their families. All of them perished in the Holocaust. 13 children remained in the orphanage in Oslo. Nina Hackel Hasvol was the director of the institution. She had been born in St...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Hasvold Nina (Hackel)
Righteous
Nina Hackel-Hasvold Nic Waal Martin Solvang Gerda Tanberg Ola Rauken Ola Breisjoberget Before Norway was occupied by the Germans, the Jewish community in Oslo established a home for Jewish children who had been brought from Austria and Prague in 1938 and 1939. Following the German occupation, the Germans and their Norwegian collaborators forced the return of eight of these children to their families. All of them perished in the Holocaust. 13 children remained in the orphanage in Oslo. Nina Hackel Hasvol was the director of the institution. She had been born in St...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Mamen Hans
Righteous
Mamen, Reverend Hans Christen In late autumn 1942, Reverend Hans Christen Mamen was a university student and lived with his parents in Asker, a small village outside of Oslo. According to the testimony of Edith Adler, Mamen risked his life and the life of his family to save Jews. Mamen’s family supplied food for many Jews in hiding and they also offered temporary shelter on their farm to Jewish refugees. Mamen personally ventured on a number of dangerous missions and escorted individuals and groups on the escape route to Sweden. Among the rescued persons were Edith and Felix Adler, and...
Nationality : Norway
Religion : Protestant
Fate : Survived
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Wilhelmsen Agnes & Carl
Righteous
Follestad, Einar Follestad, Agnes Wilhelmsen, Agnes Wilhelmsen, Carl Bonnevie, Alfhild Bryn, Harald Bryn, Nanti Nielssen, Finn Nielssen, Valdis Nine Norwegian citizens saved a number of Jews from Oslo, including Herman Raskow and his pregnant wife, Fanny. According to the testimony of Fanny Raskow, her husband, Herman, was in hiding at Hadeland about an hour’s drive outside of Oslo, in October 1942. One day, her neighbor, Einar Follestad knocked at her door, asking where Herman was. Fanny told him that she was very worried because someone had...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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Nielssen Finn & Valdis
Righteous
Follestad, Einar Follestad, Agnes Wilhelmsen, Agnes Wilhelmsen, Carl Bonnevie, Alfhild Bryn, Harald Bryn, Nanti Nielssen, Finn Nielssen, Valdis Nine Norwegian citizens saved a number of Jews from Oslo, including Herman Raskow and his pregnant wife, Fanny. According to the testimony of Fanny Raskow, her husband, Herman, was in hiding at Hadeland about an hour’s drive outside of Oslo, in October 1942. One day, her neighbor, Einar Follestad knocked at her door, asking where Herman was. Fanny told him that she was very worried because someone had...
Nationality : Norway
Fate : Survived
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