Events occurring on or around International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Norway
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In Oslo The Norwegian Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities will arrange a commemorative event at the quayside from where the Norwegian Jews were brutally forced into the ships for deportation to Auschwitz and extermination. Representatives of theNorwegian government, the Jewish community, former political prisonersand the Romapeople will address the meeting. Jewish children will perform a torch lightening ceremony.
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AtFalstad near the town of Levanger the Falstad Human Rights and Memorial Centre and the Jewish Museum of Trondheim will arrange the commemorative events at the former SS-camp Falstad. The county governor of Nord-Trøndelag will address the commemorative meeting. Survivors of the Holocaust will tell their story and a film about Cissi Klein will be shown. Cissi Klein was a young Jewish girl from Trondheim who was arrested, deported and murdered in Auschwitz. There will also be a torch light processionto the execution site Falstad Forest where approximately 220 prisoners were executed. Falstad Forest is today a national cultural monument and a war grave site.
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In the city of Kristiansand 600-700 teachers and schoolchildren will attend a commemoration ceremony. The Archive Foundation of Kristiansand, the United Nations Association of Norway, the Red Cross and the Forum for Living History (Stockholm) will address the meeting and arrange working groups. A representative of a local Jewish family who survived the Holocaust willaddress the meeting. Pupils at Vågsbygd High School will present a play which has been written on the occasion of the Holocaust Memorial Day.
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In the town of Risør the organisation Travel for Peace will arrange a commemorative event on the 27th January. County Governor of Aust-Agder Mr. Øystein Djupedal and member of the Storting (Parliament), Mr. Ingolf Ropstad will address the meeting. Teachers and pupils at the Risør Secondary School will attend the ceremony.
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The Telavågthe North Sea Traffic Museum has commemorated the Holocaust Memorial Day since 2004. This year about 600 teachers and schoolchildren will attend the ceremony. A film about Anne Frank and the Holocaust will be shown and a play will be performed by the Vesterlandske Teatersenter. The schoolchildren will lightcandlesin memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
