Time line of the Holocaust in Norway

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The Holocaust in Norway was a consequence of a series of events outlined below.

Date	Event
17-May-1933	Vidkun Quisling founds Nasjonal Samling
7-Feb-1939	Quisling gives speech on the “Jewish Danger”[1]
9-Apr-1940	Operation Weserübung:German forces invade and occupy Norway
10-Apr-1940	Gestapo arrives in Haugesund, seeking to arrest Moritz Rabinowitz
18-Apr-1940	Hitler declares Norway a “hostile country” that can freely be exploited [2]
24-Apr-1940	Hitler names Josef Terboven as Reichskommissar with power to invoke and enforce decrees
10-May-1940	All radios in the possession of Jews are ordered confiscated
25-Sep-1940	Terboven speaks to the Norwegian people, promising tolerance of all religions
4-Dec-1940	Moritz Rabinowitz is arrested by the Gestapo
16-Jan-1941	Brawl breaks out in Bergen when Nazis try to prevent Ernst Glaser from performing
27-Feb-1941	Moritz Rabinowitz is beaten to death in Sachsenhausen
1-Mar-1941	Benjamin Bild is arrested in Kjeller
21-Apr-1941	The synagoge in Trondheim is seized and vandalized
23-Jun-1941	Decree bans Jews from practicing law
23-Jun-1941	Sixty Jewish prisoners are imprisoned at Grini
10-Oct-1941	All Jews in Norway are ordered to submit their identification papers to be stamped with the letter “J”
26-Dec-1941	Benjamin Bild dies at Gross Rosen
22-Jan-1942	“Racial” definitions of Jewish identity are formalized in Norway
28-Jan-1942	Helmuth Reinhard arrives in Norway, taking charge of the Gestapo
1-Feb-1942	Quisling claims that the Norwegian constution's paragraph 2's last clause is back in force, banning Jews from Norway
6-Feb-1942	All Jews are ordered to complete questionnaire in triplicate
7-Mar-1942	Four Jewish Norwegians are executed at Falstad concentration camp on trumped-up charges
21-Aug-1942	Nine Jews arrested in Nærsnes, outside Oslo
6-Oct-1942	Martial law is declared in Trondheim, 34 Norwegians are murdered
7-Oct-1942	Halldis Neegaard Østbye writes letter to Quisling proposing that Jews be killed “quickly and painlessly”
22-Oct-1942	Arne Hvam is shot by a member of the Norwegian resistance smuggling Jews out of Norway, a hunt throughout Østfold ensues
26-Oct-1942	Jewish men over 15 are arrested; all Jewish property is ordered confiscated
27-Oct-1942	Rakel and Jacob Feldmann are killed by border pilots at Skrikerudtjern
10-Nov-1942	Seven Norwegian bishops in the Church of Norway submit a letter of protest against the persecution of Jews to Quisling
13-Nov-1942	Three Jewish prisoners are shot at Falstad
19-Nov-1942	The D/S Monte Rosa sails for Hamburg, with 21 Jewish deportees; none survive
25-Nov-1942	The D/S Donau is requisitioned for transport of Jews from Norway
26-Nov-1942	540 Jewish men, women, and children board the D/S Donau, bound for Stettin
26-Nov-1942	The D/S Monte Rosa sails for Hamburg, with 26 Jewish deportees; 2 survive
1-Dec-1942	The prisoners on the Donau arrive at Auschwitz; most are sent to the gas chambers immediately
20-Jan-1943	Prominent Norwegians in Sweden implore the British government to intervene to save Norwegian Jews; they are rebuffed
24-Feb-1943	The D/S Gotenland sails for Stettin with 158 Jewish prisoners, 6 survive
3-Mar-1943	The prisoners on the Gotenland arrive in Auschwitz, most are sent to the gas chambers immediately
8-May-1945	Norway is liberated
30-May-1945	Five of the Norwegian holocaust survivors arrive in Norway
31-Aug-1945	Memorial service for the victims of the Holocaust held at the synagogue in Oslo
14-Oct-1947	The synagoge in Trondheim is rededicated
1-Nov-1948	Monument unveiled at Helsfyr cemetery in Oslo
6-May-1986	Monument over Moritz Rabinowitz unveiled in Haugesund
23-Nov-1997	Skarpnes commission submits report on financial loss to the Norwegian parliament
23-Aug-2006	Norwegian Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities opened in Oslo
7-Oct-2006	Falstadsenteret opened

[edit] References

• Abrahamsen, Samuel [1991]. Norway's Response to the Holocaust: A Historical Perspective. Holocaust Library. ISBN 0896041174.