Escape describes a little-known episode of the Holocaust. In the winter of 1942-43, the Danish consul in Oslo saved about twenty Jews, among them the author's grandmother, who were living in Norway from deportation to the Nazi death camps. The Holocaust in Norway has received little public attention, perhaps because only 2,100 Jews were living there when the Germans invaded the country in 1940. Nevertheless, about one-third of the Norwegian Jews died in the Holocaust. The Norwegian police and bureaucracy actively participated in adopting and enforcing anti-Semitic measures, stealing Jewish property, arresting the Jews, and handing them over to the Germans on the Oslo dock to be deported to Auschwitz. Escape describes the historical background of these events as well as the experiences of the author's family, who were Danish but settled in Norway in the 1890s and established the Salomon Shoe Factory in Oslo. The book is based largely on material in the Danish and Norwegian State Archives and on contemporaneous letters.
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Norman S. Poser was born in England and came to the United States at the age of eleven. After graduating with honors from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he practiced law in New York City; served on the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; and served as Executive Vice President for Legal and Regulatory Affairs of the American Stock Exchange. He is a Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn Law School, where he taught for twenty-seven years, specializing in securities regulation. He has acted as a consultant for government agencies in the United States and other countries, including India and Brazil. Professor Poser lives with his wife in New York City.
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Fascinating book about one family's experience of the Holocaust in Norway,
This review is from: Escape: A Jewish Scandinavian Family in the Second World War (Hardcover)
This is a fascinating book about a family's escape from Norway during World War II. The stories of many countries, like France, Denmark, and Poland, are well known, but this book takes us to Oslo and the horrors visited upon the small Jewish population there by the invading Nazis. It also includes new information about the Danish Consul in Copenhagen who worked selflessly to save some of the Norwegian Jews, including the author's mother. All of this is painstakingly researched and historically accurate, yet written as the story of a family, the members of which each found a different way to escape, each with a unique story. This is must reading for anyone interested in the Holocaust, particularly if they think that the Scandinavian experience can be summed up by the actions of Denmark and the Danish rescue. A beautiful book.
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