List of Norwegian Righteous Among the Nations

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, its Jewish community was subject to persecution and deported to extermination camps. Although at least 764 Jews in Norway were killed, over 1,000 were rescued with the help of non-Jewish Norwegians who risked their lives to smuggle the refugees out of Norway, typically to Sweden.^[1] Forty-one of these have been recognized by Yad Vashem as being Righteous Among the Nations, as well as the Norwegian resistance movement collectively. This is a list.^{[2] [3]}

List

Name	Number	Year	Comment
Bonnevie, Alfhild[4]	8611.2	1999
Breisjøberget, Ola	10816.5	2006	For the rescue of children at the Jewish Children's Home in Oslo
Bryn, Harald & Nanti	8611.3	1999
Faye-Hansen, Per[5]	11021	2007
Follestad, Einar & Agnes	8611	1999	For rescuing the Raskow family in Oslo [6]
Hasvold, Nina (Hackel)	10816	2006	For the rescue of children at the Jewish Children's Home in Oslo
Helliesen-Lund, Sigrid[7]	10856	2006	For the rescue of children at the Jewish Children's Home in Oslo
Hougen, Bjørn & Torbjørg	9750	2002
Hougen, Helga (1)	9750.1	2002
Hougen, Helga (2)	9750.2	2002	The two Helga Hougens were cousins.
Kleivan, Kåre	10764.2	2006
Malm, Erling	5881	1994	Committed suicide rather than reveal network that smuggled Jews out of Norway
Mamen, Hans Christen	1248	1979	Lutheran minister who acted as a border pilot, bringing small groups of refugees from his home municipality of Asker across the border to Sweden, and ended up fleeing himself.[8][9]
Michelsen, Bjørn & Astrid & his father August	9493	2001
Nielssen, Finn & Valdis	8611.4	1999
Nilsen, Nikolai & Anny, children Edmund, Nordal, Jenny, Pauline	10764	2006	For the rescue of Smith family in Tromsø [10]
Norwegian Underground Movement	616.1	1977	Awarded collectively, among other things for Carl Fredriksens Transport
Rauken, Ola	10816.4	2006	For the rescue of children at the Jewish Children's Home in Oslo
Resch-Synnestvedt, Alice	2142.1	1982	A Norwegian citizen, but active in France[11][12]
Roth, Per	6267	1994	For assisting Jewish boys in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Rotvold, Markus	10764.1	2006	For the rescue of Smith family in Tromsø [10]
Sjølie Oscar & Frida	10565	2005
Sletten-Fosstvedt, Ingebjørg	70	1967	Helped the family of rabbi Julius Samuel escape to Sweden
Solvang, Martin	10816.2	2006	For the rescue of children at the Jewish Children's Home in Oslo
Tanberg, Gerda	10816.3	2006	For the rescue of children at the Jewish Children's Home in Oslo
Tosterud (Limbodal), Margit	9069	2000
Waal, Caroline ("Nic")[13]	10816.1	2006	For the rescue of children at the Jewish Children's Home in Oslo
Wellen, Einar [14]	6846	1995	For arranging for the escape of the Rosenberg family, and others.
Wilhelmsen, Agnes & Carl	8611.1	1999

References

1. Ragnar Ulstein/Yale Genocide Studies Program (1985). "The rescue of approximately 1,000 Jews in Norway during World War II". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
2. Norwegian Righteous among the Nations, Yad Vashem website
3. "Norwegian Jews and the Holocaust; Norwegian "Righteous among the nations"". Norwegian embassy in Israel. 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2008-02-29.
4. Alfhild Bonnevie at Yad Vashem Righteous Among the Nations database
5. Per Faye-Hansen's story at Yad Vashem website
6. Gilbert, Martin (2003). The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust. Macmillan. p. 251. ISBN 0-8050-6260-2.
7. Sigrid Helliesen-Lund was a prominent QuakerQuakerism, a way of life: In homage to Sigrid Helliesen Lund on her 90th birthday, February 23rd 1982. Oslo: Norwegian Quaker Press. 1982. ISBN 82-90311-22-2.
8. Alver, Iver B.M. (2002). Vårherres kurér (in Norwegian). Sandvika: Asker og Bærums historielag. ISBN 82-90095-10-4.
9. Else and Geoff Ward (July 2007). "Hans Christen Mamen: Vår Herres Kurer" (in Norwegian). Norway: War Resistance Peace. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
10. Ledingham, Mark (2006-09-01). "Hedret for innsats under andre verdenskrig" [Honored for contributions during World War II] (in Norwegian). Tromsø: Municipality of Tromsø. Retrieved 2010-04-11.
11. Sutters, Jack (September 2002). "'Those Who Save One Life.'". American Friends Service Committee.
12. Resch Synnestevdt, Alice (2005). Over the highest mountains : a memoir of unexpected heroism in France during World War II (Digital copy). Pasadena, California: Intentional Productions. ISBN 0-9648042-6-3. OCLC 237973018.
13. Nic Waal was also active in the clandestine Norwegian military intelligence network known as XU. See Sæter, Einar; Sæter, Svein (2007) [2007]. XU - I Hemmeleg Teneste 1940-45 (in Norwegian) (3rd (revised) ed.). Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget. p. 305. ISBN 978-82-521-7208-9.
14. Stenge, Margrit Rosenberg (2004). "Margrit's Story: Narrow Escape to/from Norway". The Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. Retrieved 2008-06-29.