Norway Apologizes for Deporting Jews During Haulocaust

As Europe marks Holocaust Remembrance Day the Norwegian prime minister has apologized for the part his country held in the deportation of its own Jews. He delivered his speech in Oslo where previously in 1942 532 Jews were packed into a cargo ship bound to Nazi camps. Over 2,100 Norwegian Jews were deported to death camps during that time period, while others managed to escape to neutral Sweden. In 1998 Norway finally acknowledged its actions in the Holocaust and paid $60 million to Norwegian Jews in order to compensate for seized properties. Nevertheless, this was not quite a full apology according to Paul Levine, a history professor at Uppsala University, considering the fact that “Norway didn’t have to do what it did.”

Aleksandra Ruseva

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