1st Edition

Flight and Rescue from Norway during the Holocaust

By Paul R. Bartrop Copyright 2026
262 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book fills a lacuna in the English-language literature dealing with Norway and the Holocaust by focusing on how Norwegian Jews, and those who facilitated their rescue, remembered the experience of their departure and passage across hostile territory to sanctuary in Sweden. After Norway was invaded by the German occupiers in April 1940, the small size of the Norwegian Jewish community meant... Read more

1. Norway and its Jewish History

2. Norway, Fascism and Jewish Refugees

3. Norway at War

4. Norway and the Holocaust

5. Sweden, Land of Refuge

6. Crossings: Impeding and Enabling Salvation

7. Voices of Flight

8. Protecting the Vulnerable

9. Norway’s Righteous among the Nations

10. The Return

11. Norway’s War, the Holocaust and Film

Biography

Paul R. Bartrop is Professor Emeritus of History at Florida Gulf Coast University and Honorary Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. His published works include The Routledge History of the First World War (2025) and The Routledge History of the Second World War (2022).