# Timeline of the Holocaust in Norway

A timeline of the Holocaust in Norway is detailed in the events listed below.
| Date | Event |
| 17 May 1933 | Vidkun Quisling founds Nasjonal Samling |
| 7 February 1939 | Quisling gives speech on the "Jewish Danger" |
| 9 April 1940 | Operation Weserübung: German forces invade and occupy Norway |
| 10 April 1940 | The Gestapo arrives in Haugesund, seeking to arrest Moritz Rabinowitz |
| 18 April 1940 | Hitler declares Norway a "hostile country" that can freely be exploited |
| 24 April 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 September 1940 | Terboven speaks to the Norwegian people, promising tolerance of all religions |
| 4 December 1940 | Moritz Rabinowitz is arrested by the Gestapo |
| 16 January 1941 | Brawl breaks out in Bergen when Nazis try to prevent Ernst Glaser from performing |
| 1 March 1941 | Benjamin Bild is arrested in Kjeller |
| 21 April 1941 | The synagogue in Trondheim is seized and vandalized |
| 23 June 1941 | Decree bans Jews from practicing law |
| 23 June 1941 | Sixty Jewish prisoners are imprisoned at Grini |
| 10 October 1941 | All Jews in Norway are ordered to submit their identification papers to be stamped with the letter "J" |
| 26 December 1941 | Benjamin Bild dies at Gross-Rosen |
| 22 January 1942 | "Racial" definitions of Jewish identity are formalized in Norway |
| 28 January 1942 | Hellmuth Reinhard arrives in Norway, taking charge of the Gestapo |
| 1 February 1942 | Quisling claims that the Norwegian constitution's paragraph 2's last clause is back in force, banning Jews from Norway |
| 6 February 1942 | All Jews are ordered to complete questionnaire in triplicate |
| 27 February 1942 | Moritz Rabinowitz is beaten to death in Sachsenhausen |
| 7 March 1942 | Four Jewish Norwegians are executed at Falstad concentration camp on trumped-up charges |
| 21 August 1942 | Nine Jews arrested in Nærsnes, outside Oslo |
| 6 October 1942 | Martial law is declared in Trondheim; 34 Norwegians are murdered and all Jewish men over 15 are detained; women and children moved to two apartments |
| 7 October 1942 | Halldis Neegaard Østbye writes letter to Quisling proposing that Jews be killed "quickly and painlessly" |
| 22 October 1942 | Arne Hvam is shot by a member of the Norwegian resistance smuggling Jews out of Norway; a hunt throughout Østfold ensues |
| 26 October 1942 | Jewish men over 15 are arrested; all Jewish property is ordered confiscated |
| 27 October 1942 | Rakel and Jacob Feldmann are killed by border pilots at Skrikerudtjern |
| 10 November 1942 | Seven Church of Norway bishops submit a letter to Quisling protesting the persecution of Jews |
| 13 November 1942 | Three Jewish prisoners are shot at Falstad |
| 19 November 1942 | The MS Monte Rosa sails for Hamburg with 21 Jewish deportees; none survive |
| 25 November 1942 | The SS Donau is requisitioned for transport of Jews from Norway |
| 26 November 1942 | 540 Jewish men, women, and children board the SS Donau, bound for Stettin |
| 26 November 1942 | The MS Monte Rosa sails for Hamburg with 26 Jewish deportees; 2 survive |
| 1 December 1942 | The prisoners on the Donau arrive at Auschwitz; most are sent to the gas chambers immediately |
| 20 January 1943 | Prominent Norwegians in Sweden implore the British government to intervene to save Norwegian Jews; they are rebuffed |
| 24 February 1943 | The Gotenland sails for Stettin with 158 Jewish prisoners; 6 survive |
| 3 March 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 return to Norway |
| 31 August 1945 | Memorial service for the victims of the Holocaust held at the synagogue in Oslo |
| 14 October 1947 | The synagogue in Trondheim is rededicated |
| 1 November 1948 | Monument unveiled at Helsfyr cemetery in Oslo |
| 6 May 1986 | Monument honoring Moritz Rabinowitz unveiled in Haugesund |
| 23 November 1997 | Skarpnes commission submits report on financial loss to the Norwegian parliament |
| 23 August 2006 | Norwegian Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities opens in Oslo |
| 7 October 2006 | Falstadsenteret opens |

## Sources

* Abrahamsen, Samuel. Norway's Response to the Holocaust: A Historical Perspective. Holocaust Library (1991). ISBN 0-89604-117-4.