WWII

VG’s Hanne Skartveit: the great betrayal

February 3, 2012
By McGonagall

Lifted from VG. Applause to Skartveit for this eminent oped The great betrayal Synagogue OSLO (AP) We were unable to protect our Jewish compatriots during the war. And today we are unable to give them the security they need. Do we simply not care? OpEd by Hanne Skartveit In the street where I lived for...

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The PMs Holocaust Memorial Day speech in full

January 27, 2012
By McGonagall

“Dear all, This year marks 70 years since the “Danube” cast off from this quay, and embarked on a voyage of shame . 532 Jews were brutally stowed on board. Only nine returned. One of them was Samuel Steinmann. He is the last survivor. I’m especially glad you are here with us. Today we...

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Our deepest regret this could happen on Norwegian soil

January 27, 2012
By McGonagall

Finally, the first real step towards acknowledging our own role in the tragedy. Only after accepting responsibility, can the hard work of forgiveness and the arduous task of reconstructing relations begin. Lifted from Aftenposten (by Elisabeth Rodum and Halvor Hegtun) PM Jens Stoltenberg (Labour) deeply regretted the deportation of Norwegian Jews at the Holocaust Memorial...

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Holocaust commemoration ceremony today at 1500 hrs in Oslo

January 27, 2012
By McGonagall

Lifted from Dagen.no, but also covered most other news outlets. For more details on the event itself, you can go to http://www.holocaustdagen.no/ Thinks Jens will apologize to the Jews Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is expected to come up with a form of apology to the Norwegian Jews during the International Holocaust Remembrance Day today....

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PM’s reply to Hans Olav Syvertsen’s request for formal apology to Norwegian Jews

January 16, 2012
By McGonagall

I suppose it is a good thing that our PM will honor the memory of the murdered Norwegian citizens who happened to be Jewish for this upcoming Holocaust Day Memorial. But if I am not mistaken, the Holocaust center, which the PM claims he was on the forefront for establishing, was in fact the...

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Forgiveness or pardon… what’s the difference

January 12, 2012
By McGonagall

Somebody said that in order to be able to forgive, the parties involved in an incident need to work very hard to uncover the underlying history, the perpetrator needs to explain why he or she acted the way they did and why it now is important to be forgiven, whilst the victim truly must...

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Vårt Land: Anti-Semitism alive and well in Norway

December 20, 2011
By McGonagall

HISTORIC DARKNESS Vårt Land 2011 12 20 p 3, 4 Erling Rimehaug. Not Online Summary. Op-ed on the Shoah in Norway. Mr. Rimehaug points to the Shoah in Norway still not being a fully integrated  part of Norwegian history, and anti-Semitism still being very much alive. Quotes: “The genocide on Norwegian Jews is still...

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Klassekampen – The only Norwegian newspaper commemorating the horrors of November 26, 1942.

November 27, 2011
By McGonagall
Klassekampen – The only Norwegian newspaper commemorating the horrors of November 26, 1942.

As far as I have been able to verify, ultra leftist and anti-Israeli newspaper Klassekampen, is the only Norwegian newspaper that has commemorated the horrible events of November 26, 1942. Their article is very welcome, as it not only reminds us of past horrors, but questions why Norwegian researchers and academic institutions have failed...

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Were the Jews of an inferior value after all?

November 21, 2011
By McGonagall

In relation to a seminar at the National Holocaust Center, on the issue of to what extent the economical restitution to the Jewish community in Oslo was linked to the fact that Jews were deported to Germany, retired Registrar and current research associate at the Holocaust Center, Christopher S. Harper, has written an oped published in...

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A few days off.

September 28, 2011
By McGonagall

Dear all Just taking a few days off as I cross from one continent to another. I wont be able to upload newsitems for a few days, nor moderate comments. Proise to be back at full speed from Sunday. Meanwhile, you may find this little gem from BBC radio 4 worth listening to, and...

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Inviting the people of Hammerfest to remember their dead – the story of Isak Meyer Goldman

September 6, 2011
By McGonagall
Inviting the people of Hammerfest to remember their dead – the story of Isak Meyer Goldman

Isak Meyer Goldmann, came originally from Poland and lived in P. H. Mansikas house in Hammerfest until he was arrested by Norwegian police on October 26, 1942 and deported to Auschwitz via Oslo. Isak Meyer Goldmann was gassed to death in Auschwitz on December 1, 1942. This is all the Norwegian public ever will...

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Op-ed:When Norwegians killed Jews

June 1, 2011
By admin
Op-ed:When Norwegians killed Jews

Slowly, slowly, facts are starting to turn up. Thousands of Norwegian fought for the third reich. They have denied partaking in any ethnic cleansing. This autumn three researchers from the Holocaust centre will present evidence that Norwegians indeed did partake in massacres of civilians, also Jews, on the east front. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor...

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JP on how Norway fails to pursue nazi war criminals

May 8, 2011
By admin

The Jerusalem Post has an article up on how nine countries are failing to pursue nazi war criminals. Israelwhat has, for days now, been unsuccessful in attempts at accessing the article. So there is an article on Norway and nazis out there but we can’t open it. What a shame. Here is what sister-site...

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The anti-Semitic demonstrations in Trondheim in 1941

March 22, 2011
By admin
The anti-Semitic demonstrations in Trondheim in 1941

Do you know anything about the anti-Semitic demonstrations in Trondheim in 1941? If you do, please get in touch. This site has never heard about them before. We would have, if we had read the book the excerpt above is lifted from, which from what we understand is a Norwegian classic on WWII. The...

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Norwegian press, public debate on Jews then and now

March 15, 2011
By McGonagall
Norwegian press, public debate on Jews then and now

June 9 1943, Nazified Aftenposten writes From NTB correspondent: The American magazine Life warns of increasing antisemitism leading to shop owners being reluctant to hire Jews. The rift between Jews and non-Jews grows by the day. Roosevelt has therefore tried to get as many Jews as possible jobs in state departments. This is not...

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‘The Norwegian Nazi team did badly in the winter games’

March 4, 2011
By admin

To its credit, Morgenbladet brings a facsimile of its issues from 70 years ago. See below for some of the contents from Morgenbladet, issue of February the 25th through March the 3rd, Last Page. If you suspect that WWII was, perhaps, not our (Norway’s) finest hour, you are as wrong as you are right. -Paperclips. The...

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Hunting Jews in Trondheim

January 27, 2011
By admin
Hunting Jews in Trondheim

Mark Twain observed that the past does not repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. These days, the rhyme in Trondheim is a nasty one. Two recent letters to the weekly Morgenbladet tell of Jews being harassed in Trondheim, one for refusing to be ashamed of his Israeli relatives, the other for wearing the star...

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Crusade in Europe

January 1, 2011
By admin
Crusade in Europe

On page 128 of “Crusade in Europe”, Eisenhower’s WWII memoirs, we see a mention of a part of Middle East history which Norwegian ME pundits never, ever refer to: Remembering that for years the uneducated population had been subjected to intensive Nazi propaganda calculated to fan these prejudices… Now Eisenhower is far from the...

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Aftenposten magazine: four pages on KZ, not one word on Jews

December 1, 2010
By admin
Aftenposten magazine: four pages on KZ, not one word on Jews

Aftenposten’s weekly A-magasin extra offers  a five-page article about the nazi prison camps of WWII, without mentioning the Norwegian Jews with as much as a word. Is this appropriate? The article, by journalist Lars Kluge, is published in the Aftenposten special A-magasinet #47, November 26th 2010, and runs from page 48 to 52. The...

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Hallgrim Berg on left-wing fascism: ‘…the first stage of terror…’

November 28, 2010
By admin
Hallgrim Berg on left-wing fascism: ‘…the first stage of terror…’

One hundred red youths recently marched on two Israeli girls selling cosmetics in a shopping mall in Oslo. Such cowardice comes natural to these thugs. Hallgrim Berg, a respected Norwegian musician, politician and intellectual, identifies the red youths as left-wing fascists. In a letter to Hallingdølen, a local newspapers, Mr.Berg writes: “Staged events and...

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