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The deportation followed a series of steps to discriminate, persecute, and disenfranchise Jews in Norway. Jewish individuals were at first arrested, Jewish property was confiscated, Jews were ordered to report to local police stations and have their identification cards stamped with a "J" and fill in a lengthy form about their profession ...
It was titled "The Reisel/Bruland Report on the Confiscation of Jewish Property in Norway during World War II," and is commonly known as the "blue book" and is on file at the Norwegian Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities. Ottosen, Kristian (1994). I slik en natt - historien om deportasjonen av jøder fra Norge. Oslo: Aschehoug.
Many Jews who could, fled the country. "Nearly two-thirds of the Jews in Norway fled from Norway". [47] Of these, around 900 Jews were smuggled out of the country by the Norwegian resistance movement, mostly to Sweden but some also to the United Kingdom. [48] In 1942, before deportations started, there were at least 2,173 Jews in Norway.
All Jews in Norway are ordered to submit their identification papers to be stamped with the letter "J" 26 December 1941 Benjamin Bild dies at Gross-Rosen: 22 January 1942 "Racial" definitions of Jewish identity are formalized in Norway 28 January 1942 Hellmuth Reinhard arrives in Norway, taking charge of the Gestapo 1 February 1942
During the Nazi occupation of Norway, German authorities deported about 768 individuals of Jewish background to concentration camps outside of Norway. [1] Between 28 and 34 of those deported survived [2] their continued imprisonment (following their deportation).
As far as I can judge, these were the largest anti-Jewish riots in Norwegian history. Even before and during World War II, when anti-Semitic prejudices were strong, public policies were discriminatory, and the Nazified State Police efficiently confiscated Jewish property and deported Jews on that despicable slave ship SS Donau - even then ...
Within a few months, most of Norway's Jews would be murdered in Auschwitz, driven underground, or to Sweden, where they sought refuge until the war ended. The arrest and deportation of political leaders into the Nacht und Nebel camps in Germany also intensified after this. In truth, Norway was already under martial law by any conventional standard.
History of the Jews in Norway; A. Antisemitism in Norway; C. ... Jewish deportees from Norway during World War II; W. With Israel for Peace This page was ...