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Rubinstein and Koklin history 1906 Rebecca (nee Mendel) and Harry Rubinstein marry in Manchester Having arrived from Libau (Liepāja) in Kurland and Frauenburg (Saldus) in Latvia (ca. 1885), the Rubinstein's move to Kristiania (Norway) a week after the wedding, where they have 5 children (b. 1907-13); Salomon “Solly”, Isidor, Elsa, Willy and David Read More 1914 Ida (nee Becker) and Benjamin Koklin marry in Kristiania Ida arrived from a shtetl outside Riga in Latvia in 1897 and Benjamin from Klikoln in Lithuania in 1910, the Koklins have 5 children (b. 1916-25); Charles, Gitel, Ruth “Lillemor”, Julius and Emil. They initially settle in Kragerø, but later move to Nordstrand (near Kristiania) Read More 1922 Harry Rubinstein is naturalised as Norwegian citizen after a lengthy (antisemitic) bureaucratic process. He established the London-Basaren (like a Poundshop today) and was the Chair of the Synagogue building committee 1920-21 (d. 1931). Isidor boarded 5 years with family friends in Frankfurt am Main, Solly moved to South Africa in 1933, Willy studied law Read More 1927 The Koklin family move to Tønsberg a city of around 10,000 inhabitants (highest % Jews in the country) 60 miles SSW, where they established and managed retail shops specialising in hosiery (knitted goods). Read More 1939 Willy is arrested He is sentenced to 6 months in prison in Germany after being caught smuggling goods for the family friends in Frankfurt. He is released on 28th August and makes his way back to Oslo where he arrives on 1st September and meets Lillemor at the celebrations organised by the Jewish Youth Organisation Read More 1940 Willy and Isidor fight for Norway 9/4: Protecting the fleeing King and government, the Norwegian Army managed to repulse and delay the Germans until they could join up with British and French forces in the north. 29/4: The King and part of his government boarded HMS Glasgow and established a government in Exile from London Read More 1941 Situation for Jews gets worse Charles is dismissed as accountant. 16/3: Lillemor and Willy marry, 19/4: Isidor is arrested for attempting to flee to Scotland, and sentenced to 3.5 years in a German prison. 6/9: Willy’s license to practice law is withdrawn, and 15/11: Charles and Willy flee to Sweden Read More 1942 Norway is Judenrein 19/1: Isidor arrives prison in Germany, Solly fights under Montgomery in North-Africa. 7/6: Lillemor flees to Sweden and is reunited with Willy. 18/9: David flees to Sweden, Solly is captured by the Italians. 26/10: Benjamin, Julius and Emil are arrested, 26/11: Together with Ida they are deported with SS Donau and the parents are gassed on 1/12 on arrival in Auschwitz. Gitel, Elsa and Rebecca flee to Sweden Read More 1943 Jan: Emil and Julius die of frost and exhaustion in Auschwitz Monowitz. Lillemor works for the Norwegian underground in Stockholm. 8/4: Willy flies to London, 26/4: Harry (my father) is born in Sweden. 12/5: Isidor is moved to Auschwitz Monowitz. Oct: David is arrested for espionage in Sweden and sentenced to a year in prison Read More 1944 The tide is turning 6/6: D-Day. 3/10: David is released and expelled from Sweden to England. 21/11: Elsa flies to London Read More 1945 18/1: Isidor departs on the death march from Auschwitz, and is murdered on the way 27/3. 8/5: Peace in Norway. 30/5: Willy flies to Bergen to administer a military depot. 10/12: Willy and Lillemor are reunited in Oslo Read More

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Willy og Isidor Introduction Hi, my name is Ruben, and I am going to tell the contrasting story of two brothers during the second world war, my grandfather Willy and his brother Isidor. One managed to escape and survive, the other was arrested, deported to Auschwitz and murdered by the Nazis. I’m going to tell you how the Holocaust started with anti-Jewish racism and led to the state sponsored genocide of 2/3rds of Europe’s Jews. What started with lies and wrongly blaming the Jews for everything that was wrong, was followed by gradually increasing restrictions on Jewish life, leading to the extermination of whole communities across Europe, including the tiny Jewish community in Norway from where Willy and Isidor came. The Rubinstein's before the War 1 So let’s start with how they ended up in Norway. All four of my great-grandparents on my father’s side came originally from an area in the Russian Empire called Pale of Settlement, in what today is an area that stretches from Lithuania and Latvia in the north, through Belarus, Poland, Moldova and Russia to Ukraine in the south. This was a specific western region of the Russian Empire where Jews had been allowed to live. My great-grandparents Rebecca and Harry Rubinstein fled with many others, following the devastating waves of Pogroms targeting hundreds of Jewish communities and assaulting and killing thousands of Jews. They met in Manchester and married in 1906, but moved to Norway’s capital Kristiania (which changed name to Oslo in 1925) a week after the wedding. There they had five children (born between 1907-13); Salomon “Solly”, Isidor, Elsa, Willy (my grandfather) and David. The Rubinstein's before the War 2 Rebecca and Harry established “Londoner Basar”, which was inspired by Marks & Spencer’s successful Penny Bazaar on Cheetham Hill Road, and it proved a great success in Norway too. By 1915 they had made a small fortune, and could afford to move out to a large villa they called “Elsaborg” after their middle daughter, in the fashionable suburbs being developed along the tram line going up to Holmenkollen, the ski area overlooking Oslo. They had a live-in childminder, a gardener to tend the large garden and vegetable patch, and even a goat, who provided Willy goat milk for his weak heart. https://moneyweek.com/409468/28-september-1894-marks-and-spencer-opens-its-first-penny-bazaar The Rubinstein's before the War 3 The children grew up in a loving home, and with nature on their doorstep. They loved the outdoors and sports both in the warm summers and cold Norwegian winters. The family and some of the older children spent the summer holidays with family friends in Frankfurt in Germany, Isidor even stayed and went to boarding school there for almost 6 years. The whole family were active in the growing Jewish community, and when they wanted to build a synagogue in 1918, Harry was appointed chairman of the building committee, since he provided the money for most of the building works. However, disaster struck the family when Harry (their father) died in 1931, and the business collapsed when they lost their savings. While grieving, the family had to sell the grand villa and they moved into a rented flat. Isidor came back from Frankfurt and two years travelling around Canada. He stayed for a while to help out and got a business degree, but then got restless finding it difficult to get a good job and left again looking for work in the US and in South Africa, even spending a season as a whaler in the Antarctic ocean. https://www.dmt.oslo.no/en/home/ The rise of antisemitism The number of Jews who settled in Norway, like Willy and Isidor’s parents, following the Pogroms in Russia increased around the turn of the Century, but by 1910 the community still only counted less than 1,000 members. However, antisemitic attitudes in Norway and in Europe in general grew stronger. In 1929 a new law was introduced by the Norwegian Parliament that banned the Jewish method of slaughter that still remains in place today. Parliament also adopted racial hygiene laws in 1934, a year before the Nazis introduced the Nuremberg Laws in Germany. These laws defined the “Nordic race” with their stereotypical tall, blonde and blue-eyed features, and imposed restrictions on unwanted “others”, including people with mental illnesses, Travelers and Jews. Willy read and heard a lot about the situation in Germany, which was getting worse by the day, but the shocking events of the 9th November 1938, also known as Kristallnacht, made him realise that he needed to do something. In Germany 30,000 Jews had been attacked and hounded through the streets, then arrested and taken to concentration camps. Hundreds of synagogues and Jewish businesses were torched and plundered in country-wide riots. Jewish children were removed from all German schools, and Jews had to pay an extra 20% tax to pay for their own repairs. In Norway, many Norwegians sympathised with the German Jews and believed that it could never happen in Norway. But at the same time, politicians and officials warned against allowing Jewish refugees entry to Norway, especially after the failed Evian conference in July 1938 had resulted in no country in the world accepting Jewish refugees. The US was limiting immigration, even turning away ships of refugees returning them to Europe where some of them were murdered by the Nazis. By 1939 the British were also limiting Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine. Several humanitarian organisations were working desperately to assist the mainly Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied territories. Kindertransport was an organised rescue effort that managed to bring almost 10,000 Jewish children to the UK, and Nansen’s Aid rescued hundreds to Norway. https://hmd.org.uk/resource/9-november-1938-kristallnacht-2/ Willy is arrested In February 1939, Willy flew to Berlin where he met with the last remaining member of the family-friends from Frankfurt. The other members of the family had managed to flee to London, but had had to give up all their valuables and belongings. Willy, who was 27 at the time, was travelling on the train from Berlin to Hamburg, when German police raided it. To avoid drawing attention to himself, Willy tried to stuff the fur coat down the toilet, which was only a hole in the floor. It didn’t help and he was arrested. After a brief trial, he was sentenced to six months in jail in North Germany for attempted smuggling. His defence lawyer tried to appeal the sentence, but instead lost his licence to practise law because he was Jewish. Willy was released after completing his sentence on 28th August and made his way back by train to Copenhagen in Denmark, and then took the ferry to Oslo, where he arrived on 1st September - the day Germany invaded Poland and the war broke out. Family, friends and members of the Jewish Youth Organisation welcomed Willy back on the pier in Oslo as a hero, with Norwegian flags and cheers of “Willy! Willy!”. They gathered in the evening to hear about Willy’s experience, and afterwards the men enjoyed cognac and cigars in one room and the women had liqueur and cigarettes in another. Willy was handed a tray of chocolates, which he took to the women and offered them on one condition: One chocolate, one kiss. After a round he declared: “The girl from Tønsberg kissed the best, so I’ll have to invite her on a date!”. He was referring to his future wife and my grandmother Ruth, who was better known as Lillemor. Let’s hear from her (Video) Germany invades Norway On the 9th of April 1940, Nazi Germany invaded Norway. The first wave of 10,000 German commandos on board the flagship Blücher, were tasked with capturing the Norwegian capital, the King and his government. However, Blücher was sunk at Oscarsborg Fortress, which was protecting the access to Oslo by sea, after being hit by two artillery rounds from the 50-year old guns, nicknamed Moses and Aron after the biblical leaders of the Jewish people, and a torpedo. This delay enabled the King, the Royal Family, and the Government with the Norwegian Gold Reserves to evacuate Oslo and flee northwards. Isidor and Willy who were 31 and 28 at the time, immediately volunteered to the Norwegian army; Willy joined the Transport division, and they fought in the battles in Southern Norway. The German ground attack faced pockets of resistance in pursuit of the King and his Government until they could join up with British and French forces in the north. On the 7th June, The King and part of his government boarded HMS Glasgow and established a government in Exile from London. The Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square has been given every year since 1947, as a token of Norwegian gratitude to the people of the UK for their assistance during the war. When the Nazis invaded Norway, they installed the leader of NS, the Norwegian Nazi party, as Minister President. One of his first acts was to ban Jews from entering Norway. They had already started to identify and list Jews back in 1938, and by the end of December 1941 the lists had been expanded and cross-referenced with Jewish organisations who had been ordered to provide membership lists. This information was used by the Police, local governors and the Justice Department to register Jewish-owned property and businesses. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/assault-on-oslo-the-naval-disaster-in-the-drobak-strait/ The situation gets worse for Jews Through 1940 and 1941 the situation for the Jews got worse; some Jews were arrested for political activity, all radios owned by Jews were confiscated and the synagogue in Trondheim was seized and vandalised. Miraculously, the Synagogue in Oslo was used as a storage facility, but remained largely untouched throughout the war. Jews’ identification papers were marked “J” and they were banned from practising medicine, accounting and law, including my grandfather Willy. Despite this, or perhaps because of this, Lillemor and Willy married in March 1941. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Norway Isidor is arrested [Video] On the 19th April 1941, Isidor was arrested together with five non-Jews. Initially it was Willy who had been arrested, and Isidor had the opportunity to flee, but he turned himself in and Willy was released. They were brutally interrogated and put on a trial that lasted five months for attempting to sail to England. The six defendants were each sentenced to 3½ years in jail and transferred from the Gestapo (Nazi German Secret Police) cells where they had been held during the trial to a prison camp north of Oslo. Willy knew what a German prison meant and having attended the trial with Lillemor, they decided then that they had to get out of Norway as soon as possible. Sweden was still neutral and shared a long land border where a few resistance groups organised guides to take groups through the forests, avoiding German patrols. Willy contacted one of those groups in secret to arrange the trip. He buried silver goods and other valuables in the garden of the childminder who had worked for his parents. Then on the 15th November 1941, Willy fled around 100 km (60 miles) on skis across the border and then by train to Stockholm. After Willy had fled, Lillemor moved to her mother-in-law Rebecca’s apartment in Oslo, to also get ready to flee. She was told to start training for a long hike through thick forest. Fleeing to Sweden On the 7th January 1942, three of the gang including Isidor were transported in chains to Akershus fortress by the port of Oslo. The other three were too ill and were taken to hospital, where one of them died. After 10 days in solitary confinement, Isidor and the other two were loaded onto a transport ship together with another 36 prisoners, which took them across the sea to Denmark. There they were loaded onto a train that took them to a prison camp near Hamburg, where Isidor had to glue up to 1,200 tiny paper bags of washing powder per day. On the 5th June 1942, Lillemor asked her parents to come to Oslo to say goodbye, and she begged them to follow her to Sweden with her younger brother Emil (he was only 16). She took the train southeast from Oslo. A man on the train directed her to take a bus from the next stop to a farmhouse. From there she took a forest path, across a road teeming with German patrols. She stayed at another farm overnight, and the next morning she crossed the border to Sweden with a small suitcase, wading through a stream. On the other side she was greeted with “Welcome to Sweden” (in Swedish), got food and drink, and was then registered as a refugee. Lillemor arrived in Stockholm late on 7th June, greeted by Willy, who had been waiting for her at the station all day, with carnations that had seen better days. The Holocaust in Norway On the 26th October 1942, Norwegian police came to arrest all the male Jews. Willy and Isidor’s younger brother David had fled in September. Only Lillemor’s brother, Emil was at their home when the police came knocking. The father Benjamin and brother Julius (20) were in Oslo and were arrested there, after they had decided that they couldn’t leave Emil on his own while they fled to Sweden. Benjamin, Julius and Emil were sent to a detention camp and the women were instructed to report to the local police station every day. A month later, in the early morning of 26th November, the police came to arrest the women and children too. Lillemor’s sister Gitel managed to escape by her mother kicking her out the back door when the police came to arrest them. She managed to flee and went into hiding in a local hospital where a friendly doctor admitted her and protected her from those looking for her. The mother, Ida, was ordered to board the bus with 20 other Jewish “passengers”, including members of Benjamin’s extended family. The bus arrived in the afternoon at Pier 1 in Oslo harbour, where they met hundreds of other Jews, including the men who had been arrested the month before. That day, Norwegian police under direction of the Gestapo handed over 576 Jewish men, women and children to the SS at the harbour where they were forced onto the transport ships Donau and Monte Rosa. The SS or Schutzstaffel was the paramilitary organisation that was most responsible for the systematic and industrial murder of Jews. In total 767, or just over a third of the registered Jews would be deported this way. After a couple of days sailing through rough weather, the Donau docked in Stettin in what is today Northern Poland. Here the Jews were stuffed onto cattle trains with standing-room only and they arrived in Auschwitz II - Birkenau in the evening of 1st December. There the children, women and elderly including Ida and Benjamin were separated and taken directly to the gas chambers where they were murdered within hours of arrival. Birkenau was an extermination camp where gas chambers had been built by 1944 to kill up to 10,000 people per day. 1.1m people were murdered there; 960k Jews and of them 865k on arrival. Julius and Emil were sent to Auschwitz III - Monowitz, which was the labour camp for the chemical company IG Farben. They didn’t survive the inhumane conditions there and both died within two months of arriving from exhaustion and frost. https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/life-in-nazi-occupied-europe/occupation-case-studies/norway/ Lillemor and Willy in Exile After the reunion with Willy in Stockholm, Lillemor started working for the Norwegian resistance, managing a covert apartment and making sure that the constant stream of agents had everything they needed. Unable to find a satisfactory position himself, Willy got a pass to fly to England on 8th April 1943, where the Norwegian authorities in London sent him to Scotland to join the forces preparing to retake Norway. This was much to Lillemor’s annoyance and frustration as she was 9 months pregnant! Willy wasn’t much soldier-material, he had problems with his wrists, and was often sent to London for treatment and rehabilitation, where he was also hoping to get legal work for the Norwegian Government in Exile. Lillemor gave birth to my father on 26th April 1943, but with little social security for refugees, she struggled with money and accommodation. After a couple of months, Willy started to send money back to Lillemor and she started receiving support from the Norwegian army. Lillemor and Willy sent almost 200 letters and many telegrams to each other over the next 2½ years, each (avg.) 4-page letter often having to go through Swedish, Norwegian and UK censorship. They shared their feelings of being apart, commented on the news, and talked about movies they went to see. Lillemor also kept a diary, where she jotted down her own thoughts and comments, and held imaginary conversations with her son (my father). From prisoner to Jew Isidor wrote 10 letters to his mother Rebecca from prison in North Germany in response to the letters he received from her in Sweden. In one letter Isidor congratulated her on the birth of her grandchild (my father). After over a year, Isidor was transferred to Auschwitz III Monowitz on 12th May 1943. His crime had been upgraded to “being Jewish”, while the others returned to Norway. As the allies advanced from the West and the Red Army from the East, the German SS ordered the destruction of the evidence of atrocities that they had committed. Isidor survived the extreme conditions for 18 months, where the slaves died on average within 2-3 months of arriving. On 18th January 1945, Isidor was ordered, together with around 65,000 remaining prisoners, on what became known as the Death March from Auschwitz. https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/categories-of-prisoners/jews-in-auschwitz/ Isidor is murdered [Video] After two months of marching and being transported by train from camp to camp, he was murdered by an SS officer on 27th March after asking for water. We know this because in a witness statement provided by a fellow Norwegian Jew, who met Isidor on the cattle train to the last concentration camps. He managed to escape and told the approaching American troops where Isidor’s body was, they found him and buried him. His remains were repatriated in 1950 and buried in the Jewish cemetery in Oslo. Just over a month later, the Germans capitulated in Norway on 8th May 1945, but instead of returning to Stockholm or Oslo, Willy was sent to Bergen (on the west coast of Norway) to administer the military hardware depots left behind. Reuniting and rebuilding 1 Only 26 survivors from the concentration camps and around 500 of those who fled returned to rebuild the Jewish Community in Norway after the war. It was not until 1999 (over 50 years after the war) that they received proper individual and communal compensation, including funds to sustain the Jewish Community in Norway and to form a national museum for tolerance. Today there are around 1,500 Jews in Norway, still well below the 2,173 listed in 1942. The rise of antisemitism is again causing fear in the community, worried that the Government, who have been very hostile to Israel, are ignoring the threats. The synagogues and Jewish cemetery have been vandalised and shot at, and antisemitic language in media and the arts are becoming more common. Reuniting and rebuilding 2 Lillemor was granted a visa to Norway for a week in June, travelling on trains for military personnel to Bergen to meet Willy. Lillemor, young Harry and Willy finally reunited in Oslo 10th December 1945. In January she went back to her hometown Tønsberg where she met her brother Charles and they went around with a police officer to places they suspected had stolen or auctioned goods. They recovered many items, either because Charles as a child had marked everything with his initials (CK) in thick black marker pen, or due to the police local knowledge and auction lists from 1942-43. From Willy and Lillemor’s families; One parent (Harry) died before the war, two (Ida & Benjamin) were murdered in Auschwitz and one (Rebecca) survived Of the ten siblings in both families, one (Salomon) emigrated to South Africa before the war, three (Julius, Emil & Isidor) were murdered and six (Elsa, Willy, David, Charles, Gitel & Lillemor) fled to Sweden and England where they survived Three of the seven surviving siblings had in total five children (including my father), six grandchildren (including me) and ten great-grandchildren (including my children). Only two children, two grand-children and four great-grandchildren live in Norway today, the rest live in South Africa, Israel and the UK Lessons to be learnt The antisemitism that grew in Norway in the years leading up to the Holocaust offers important lessons about prejudice, responsibility, and the dangers of indifference. Back then, negative stereotypes about Jewish people were spread widely, creating a culture of mistrust and "othering." Although Norway’s Jewish community was small, the prejudice they faced paved the way for many Norwegians to turn a blind eye—or even assist—when the Nazis began persecuting Jews during World War II. This period reminds us that harmful beliefs, even when subtly expressed or directed toward small groups, can lead to devastating outcomes if left unchecked. Today, we see similar biases and misinformation targeting various communities around the world. Just as those in Norway could have spoken up against the prejudice they saw, we too can choose to challenge discrimination, advocate for fair treatment, and support those targeted by hate. Recognising the impact of prejudice, no matter how small, helps us build a more inclusive and aware society that resists the cycles of hate that history warns us about. Let Lillemor have the final word and warning [Video]

< Back Introduction Hi, my name is Ruben, and I am going to tell the contrasting story of two brothers during the second world war, my grandfather Willy and his brother Isidor. One managed to escape and survive, the other was arrested, deported to Auschwitz and murdered by the Nazis. I’m going to tell you how the Holocaust started with anti-Jewish racism and led to the state sponsored genocide of 2/3rds of Europe’s Jews. What started with lies and wrongly blaming the Jews for everything that was wrong, was followed by gradually increasing restrictions on Jewish life, leading to the extermination of whole communities across Europe, including the tiny Jewish community in Norway from where Willy and Isidor came. Previous Next

< Back Reuniting and rebuilding 1 Only 26 survivors from the concentration camps and around 500 of those who fled returned to rebuild the Jewish Community in Norway after the war. It was not until 1999 (over 50 years after the war) that they received proper individual and communal compensation, including funds to sustain the Jewish Community in Norway and to form a national museum for tolerance. Today there are around 1,500 Jews in Norway, still well below the 2,173 listed in 1942. The rise of antisemitism is again causing fear in the community, worried that the Government, who have been very hostile to Israel, are ignoring the threats. The synagogues and Jewish cemetery have been vandalised and shot at, and antisemitic language in media and the arts are becoming more common. Previous Next

< Back The Rubinstein's before the War 1 So let’s start with how they ended up in Norway. All four of my great-grandparents on my father’s side came originally from an area in the Russian Empire called Pale of Settlement, in what today is an area that stretches from Lithuania and Latvia in the north, through Belarus, Poland, Moldova and Russia to Ukraine in the south. This was a specific western region of the Russian Empire where Jews had been allowed to live. My great-grandparents Rebecca and Harry Rubinstein fled with many others, following the devastating waves of Pogroms targeting hundreds of Jewish communities and assaulting and killing thousands of Jews. They met in Manchester and married in 1906, but moved to Norway’s capital Kristiania (which changed name to Oslo in 1925) a week after the wedding. There they had five children (born between 1907-13); Salomon “Solly”, Isidor, Elsa, Willy (my grandfather) and David. Previous Next

Snublesteiner Snublesteiner er minnesmerker over ofrene for nazismen under andre verdenskrig. Snublestein.no viser hvor snublesteiner for deporterte jøder fra Norge er lagt og gir informasjon om hver enkelt person det er lagt stein for. Nettportalen ble åpnet i november 2015 og oppdateres fortløpende. Benjamin Koklin 1891 - 1942 Les mer Emil Georg Koklin 1925 - 1943 Les mer Julius Koklin 1922 - 1943 Les mer Ida Koklin 1887 -1942 Les mer Isidor Rubinstein 1909-1945 Les mer HL: Det norske Holocaust JM: Det norske Holocaust

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Les mer 15. des. 2022 74: Tønsbergs Holocaust - familiene som forsvant DEL 1 Harry er gjest i TB-podden Les mer 8. des. 2022 Podcast: I samtale om Sviket Samtale med Guri Hjeltnes Les mer 6. des. 2022 Sviket presenteres på HL-Senteret Harry Rødner og HL-senterets direktør, Guri Hjeltnes, samtaler om boken Les mer 5. des. 2022 Vi må lære av historien «Vi må ikke glemme eller tro at det ikke lenger angår oss», sa statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre da han talte på minnemarkeringen for deportasjonene av jøder fra Norge. Les mer 29. nov. 2022 Lille Idar (1) fra Hønefoss fronter ny bok - malt av Vebjørn Sand Idar Scharff fra Hønefoss var en av de yngste jødene som ble deportert med Donau til Polen 26. november 1942. Nå er han malt av Vebjørn Sand og fronter Harry Rødner's nye bok Sviket Les mer 29. nov. 2022 Anmeldelse: Sterkt om hvordan norske jøder ble sveket Skjebne: Forfatteren forteller historien om de norske jødnenes skjebne sammenvevet med sin egen og sin egen families historie. Da rykker det hele mye nærmere. Les mer 28. nov. 2022 Da Holocaust kom til Vestfold og Norge – 80 år siden deportasjonen Programserie om andre verdenskrig Les mer 26. nov. 2022 Norge sviktet jødene allerede på 1930-tallet Når vi nå markerer at det 80 år siden at 529 norske jøder ble sendt ut av landet for å ende i Auschwitz, er det all grunn til å se nærmere på hvordan dette kunne skje. I alt ble 773 jøder sendt til dødsleirer fra Norge. Les mer 26. nov. 2022 Kunstnersamtale med Victor Lind Velkommen til kunstnersamtale med Victor Lind Les mer 26. nov. 2022 En livsfarlig linje Jødehatet har dype røtter her i Norge. Et faktum som bryter med det norske selvbildet. Og derfor fornektes så ofte. Les mer 26. nov. 2022 Invitasjon til minnemarkering på Oslo rådhus Høsten 2022 er det 80 år siden jødene fra Norge ble arrestert og deportert til nazistenes dødsleire. Les mer 24. nov. 2022 Ønskjer 26. november som nasjonal minnedag DONAUDAGEN: 26. november er datoen for Holocaust i Norge, difor bør han bli ein nasjonal minnedag. Det meiner Ervin Kohn, forstandar i Det Mosaiske Trossamfunn. Han får støtte av to andre nestorar på feltet. Les mer 24. nov. 2022 Støre talte på Holocaust-markering Vi må ikke glemme eller tro at det ikke lenger angår oss, var statsminister Jonas Gahr Støres budskap da han talte på minnemarkeringen for den største deportasjonen av jøder fra Norge. Les mer 24. nov. 2022 Støre om 80 år siden jødedeportasjonen: – Dette angår oss også i dag Det er 80 år siden 773 norske jøder ble deportert ut av landet, noe som ble markert i Oslo rådhus torsdag. Dette angår oss også i dag, sier statsministeren. Les mer 24. nov. 2022 Kronikk i VG: Sviket mot de norske jødene Vi markerer i disse dager at det er 80 år siden de norske jødene skulle utryddes. Det bør også være en markering av sviket mot dem – eksilregjeringens og kongens svik. Les mer 24. nov. 2022 Deportasjonsmonumentet i Oslo fredet Monumentet «Et sted for erindring» på Akerhuskaia er fredet av Riksantikvaren. Fredningen skjer i forbindelse med 80-årsmarkeringen av jødedeportasjonen. Les mer 24. nov. 2022 Det norske holocaust Det er viktig å huske på hvor galt det kan gå, hvor langt mennesker og samfunn kan være villige til å gå. Igjen og igjen, skriver Ervin Kohn i dette innlegget. Les mer 10. nov. 2022 Markering av Krystallnatten Fakkeltog og markering på Eidsvolls plass Les mer 9. nov. 2022 Last: Jøder. Ny dokumentarserie 26. november 1942 blir 529 jødiske menn, kvinner og barn sendt med et skip fra Oslo. Hva skjedde med jødene her, i våre gater? Tidsvitner forteller. Les mer 30. okt. 2022 Stortingsmiddagen 2022: Kongens tale "Våre jøder og våre skeive er begge minoriteter i vårt store fellesskap. Begge gruppene har vi, storsamfunnet, et ekstra ansvar for å beskytte." Les mer 27. okt. 2022 Boklansering i DMT ​ Les mer 25. okt. 2022 Sviket tilgjengelig på Boknett.no Kjøp Sviket av Harry Rødner på Boknett.no Les mer 21. okt. 2022 Sviket tilgjengelig på Bokklubben Kjøp Sviket av Harry Rødner på Bokklubben.no Les mer 21. okt. 2022 Intervju med Med Israel for Fred ​ Les mer 21. okt. 2022 Artikkel på miff.no Hør mer om den nye boken i MIFFs intervju med Harry Rødner. Les mer 21. okt. 2022 Boklansering på Jødisk Museum Hva visste regjeringen og Kongen i eksil om tilintetgjørelsen av de norske jødene? Les mer 19. okt. 2022 Last: Jøder. Historien om holocaust i Norge I november er det 80 siden den største politiaksjonen i Norsk historie fant sted, og lasteskipet Donau la fra kai med kurs for de tyske dødsleirene. Søndag 30. oktober er det klart for en ny dokumentarserie om jødenes situasjon i Norge under 2. verdenskrig. Les mer 7. okt. 2022 Hilsen fra Statsministeren Statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre gratulerer alle jøder med feiringen av jødisk nyttår, Rosh Hashana. Les mer 25. sep. 2022 TidsforDRIV sesong 2 – Det angår også deg Historiker Ane Ringheim og tidsvitne Harry Rødner forteller om de forferdelige hendelsene og likvidasjonen av jødiske eiendeler under andre verdenskrig. Les mer 26. nov. 2021 Det Norske Kongehus: Markerte synagogens 100 år 100-årsmarkeringen er en feiring både av dem som bygget synagogen, synagogelivet og hele det jødiske samfunnet i Norge. Les mer 25. nov. 2021

Siste nytt 23. aug. 2023 Ranet - Da staten ranet jødene Under andre verdenskrig tar nazistene alt jødene i Norge eier. Etter krigen starter kampen for å få verdiene tilbake, helt uten hjelp fra samfunnet. Les mer 17. apr. 2023 Foredrag på Fornebu og Lysaker Rotary Klubb Sviket - Hva regjeringen og Kongen i eksil visste om utryddelsen av de norske jødene Les mer 13. mar. 2023 Foredrag på Nesodden Rotaryklubb Max introduserer oss for Harry Rødner, forfatteren av boken «Sviket» om jødeutryddelse i Norge Les mer 2. feb. 2023 Harry er gjest i Studio Direkte (TV Visjon Norge) Studio Direkte er TV Visjon Norges flaggskip. Programmet sendes hver dag fra kl. 20.00 og har mange interessante gjester fra hele verden, innslag og musikk. Les mer 2. feb. 2023 Forfatter med sterke påstander om Kong Haakon i ny bok Forfatter Harry Rødner kommer til Studio Direkte 2. februar. I sin nye bok «Sviket» hevder han at verken den norske kongefamilien eller regjeringen var spesielt bekymret for skjebnen til de norske jødene. Les mer 27. jan. 2023 Markering av Den internasjonale Holocaustdagen Vi ønsker velkommen til den nasjonale markeringen av Den internasjonale Holocaustdagen Les mer 28. des. 2022 77: Tønsbergs Holocaust: Del 4 Familiene som forsvant Dette er fjerde og siste episode i podcasten Tønsbergs Holocaust. Les mer 22. des. 2022 76: Tønsbergs Holocaust Del 3: Familiene som forsvant Dette er tredje av fire episoder om familien Koklin fra Tønsberg. Les mer 20. des. 2022 Bokanmeldelse i Tønsbergs blad Tønsberg-familien Koklins tragiske skjebne danner utgangspunkt for Harry Rødners sviende oppgjør med kong Haakon VII og regjeringen Nygaardsvold. Hvorfor gjorde de ingenting for jødene? Les mer 15. des. 2022 75: Tønsbergs Holocaust Del 2: Familiene som forsvant For familien Koklin i Tønsberg blir hverdagene raskt annerledes. Vi får høre om kjærlighet og trusler, om en helt merkelig forlovelse, og om en hverdag som blir stadig mer krevende. Les mer 8. des. 2022 74: Tønsbergs Holocaust - familiene som forsvant DEL 1 Harry er gjest i TB-podden Les mer 6. des. 2022 Podcast: I samtale om Sviket Samtale med Guri Hjeltnes Les mer 5. des. 2022 Sviket presenteres på HL-Senteret Harry Rødner og HL-senterets direktør, Guri Hjeltnes, samtaler om boken Les mer 29. nov. 2022 Vi må lære av historien «Vi må ikke glemme eller tro at det ikke lenger angår oss», sa statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre da han talte på minnemarkeringen for deportasjonene av jøder fra Norge. Les mer 29. nov. 2022 Lille Idar (1) fra Hønefoss fronter ny bok - malt av Vebjørn Sand Idar Scharff fra Hønefoss var en av de yngste jødene som ble deportert med Donau til Polen 26. november 1942. Nå er han malt av Vebjørn Sand og fronter Harry Rødner's nye bok Sviket Les mer 28. nov. 2022 Anmeldelse: Sterkt om hvordan norske jøder ble sveket Skjebne: Forfatteren forteller historien om de norske jødnenes skjebne sammenvevet med sin egen og sin egen families historie. Da rykker det hele mye nærmere. Les mer 26. nov. 2022 Da Holocaust kom til Vestfold og Norge – 80 år siden deportasjonen Programserie om andre verdenskrig Les mer 26. nov. 2022 Norge sviktet jødene allerede på 1930-tallet Når vi nå markerer at det 80 år siden at 529 norske jøder ble sendt ut av landet for å ende i Auschwitz, er det all grunn til å se nærmere på hvordan dette kunne skje. I alt ble 773 jøder sendt til dødsleirer fra Norge. Les mer 26. nov. 2022 Kunstnersamtale med Victor Lind Velkommen til kunstnersamtale med Victor Lind Les mer 26. nov. 2022 En livsfarlig linje Jødehatet har dype røtter her i Norge. Et faktum som bryter med det norske selvbildet. Og derfor fornektes så ofte. Les mer

Siste nytt 23. aug. 2023 Ranet - Da staten ranet jødene Under andre verdenskrig tar nazistene alt jødene i Norge eier. Etter krigen starter kampen for å få verdiene tilbake, helt uten hjelp fra samfunnet. Les mer 17. apr. 2023 Foredrag på Fornebu og Lysaker Rotary Klubb Sviket - Hva regjeringen og Kongen i eksil visste om utryddelsen av de norske jødene Les mer 13. mar. 2023 Foredrag på Nesodden Rotaryklubb Max introduserer oss for Harry Rødner, forfatteren av boken «Sviket» om jødeutryddelse i Norge Les mer 2. feb. 2023 Harry er gjest i Studio Direkte (TV Visjon Norge) Studio Direkte er TV Visjon Norges flaggskip. Programmet sendes hver dag fra kl. 20.00 og har mange interessante gjester fra hele verden, innslag og musikk. Les mer 2. feb. 2023 Forfatter med sterke påstander om Kong Haakon i ny bok Forfatter Harry Rødner kommer til Studio Direkte 2. februar. I sin nye bok «Sviket» hevder han at verken den norske kongefamilien eller regjeringen var spesielt bekymret for skjebnen til de norske jødene. Les mer 27. jan. 2023 Markering av Den internasjonale Holocaustdagen Vi ønsker velkommen til den nasjonale markeringen av Den internasjonale Holocaustdagen Les mer 28. des. 2022 77: Tønsbergs Holocaust: Del 4 Familiene som forsvant Dette er fjerde og siste episode i podcasten Tønsbergs Holocaust. Les mer 22. des. 2022 76: Tønsbergs Holocaust Del 3: Familiene som forsvant Dette er tredje av fire episoder om familien Koklin fra Tønsberg. Les mer 20. des. 2022 Bokanmeldelse i Tønsbergs blad Tønsberg-familien Koklins tragiske skjebne danner utgangspunkt for Harry Rødners sviende oppgjør med kong Haakon VII og regjeringen Nygaardsvold. Hvorfor gjorde de ingenting for jødene? Les mer 15. des. 2022 75: Tønsbergs Holocaust Del 2: Familiene som forsvant For familien Koklin i Tønsberg blir hverdagene raskt annerledes. Vi får høre om kjærlighet og trusler, om en helt merkelig forlovelse, og om en hverdag som blir stadig mer krevende. Les mer 8. des. 2022 74: Tønsbergs Holocaust - familiene som forsvant DEL 1 Harry er gjest i TB-podden Les mer 6. des. 2022 Podcast: I samtale om Sviket Samtale med Guri Hjeltnes Les mer 5. des. 2022 Sviket presenteres på HL-Senteret Harry Rødner og HL-senterets direktør, Guri Hjeltnes, samtaler om boken Les mer 29. nov. 2022 Vi må lære av historien «Vi må ikke glemme eller tro at det ikke lenger angår oss», sa statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre da han talte på minnemarkeringen for deportasjonene av jøder fra Norge. Les mer 29. nov. 2022 Lille Idar (1) fra Hønefoss fronter ny bok - malt av Vebjørn Sand Idar Scharff fra Hønefoss var en av de yngste jødene som ble deportert med Donau til Polen 26. november 1942. Nå er han malt av Vebjørn Sand og fronter Harry Rødner's nye bok Sviket Les mer 28. nov. 2022 Anmeldelse: Sterkt om hvordan norske jøder ble sveket Skjebne: Forfatteren forteller historien om de norske jødnenes skjebne sammenvevet med sin egen og sin egen families historie. Da rykker det hele mye nærmere. Les mer 26. nov. 2022 Da Holocaust kom til Vestfold og Norge – 80 år siden deportasjonen Programserie om andre verdenskrig Les mer 26. nov. 2022 Norge sviktet jødene allerede på 1930-tallet Når vi nå markerer at det 80 år siden at 529 norske jøder ble sendt ut av landet for å ende i Auschwitz, er det all grunn til å se nærmere på hvordan dette kunne skje. I alt ble 773 jøder sendt til dødsleirer fra Norge. Les mer 26. nov. 2022 Kunstnersamtale med Victor Lind Velkommen til kunstnersamtale med Victor Lind Les mer 26. nov. 2022 En livsfarlig linje Jødehatet har dype røtter her i Norge. Et faktum som bryter med det norske selvbildet. Og derfor fornektes så ofte. Les mer