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[edit] 1.6 Holocaust
When Norway was invaded by Germany in April, 1940 there were 2,173 Jews in the country, 1,643 were Norwegians, 240 were foreign and 290 stateless. The last two groups made up 35% of the Jewish community, many had only recently arrived seeking refuge from Germany or Eastern Europe, but events would later overtake them. Holocaust_in_Norway
Some were using the Nansen passports provided by the League of Nations at the suggestion of the Norwegian High Commissioner, Fridtjof Nansen.
His son, Odd, had continued his humanitarian work by creating the Nansenhjelpen in 1936 to assist Jewish refugees.
The Jewish Children's Home in Oslo was established three years later as a safe haven for Jewish children from Nazi persecution.
