List of Illustrationsvii
Personal Introduction
Preface
Acknowledgments
Why This Story . . . ?3
1900: Beginning of a New Century5
The Levin Family00
Father’s Life in Oslo00
Pre-War Years00
April 9, 1940: War00
1941: The War Continues00
October–November 1942: Germans Pursue the Jews00
October 24-November 1942: Escape to Sweden00
November 25–26, 1942: Escape and Arrest of Jewish
Women and Children00
The Donau—The Death Ship00
The Extermination of Jews in Auschwitz00
Efforts to Save Lives00
1942–1946: Working in Sweden00
Refugees and the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)00
The War Is Over—Back to Norway00
1947: Father’s Philosophy—Personal Unresolved Issues00
1945: Returning from the Holocaust00
Return from Auschwitz: Post-war Contact with the Norwegian
Government in London00
1946: Displaced Persons00
1948: The European Children’s Camp in Norway00
1938: A Jewish Children’s Home in Oslo—Boys and Girls
from Vienna00
1953–1955: Minus Refugees00
Circa 1960: Reconstruction in Norway after the War00
Compensation for Norwegians00
The King of Norway and the Watch00
1965: Father’s Last Years00
Our Family Becomes Part of the JDC00
1943–1946: Childhood Memories of Sweden00
Learning about the Meaning of the Holocaust00
Growing up Both Norwegian and Jewish00
Looking Back with Ruth00
January 2012: The Prime Minister of Norway Apologizes to the
Norwegian Jews00
My Philosophy Connected to Prime Minister Stoltenberg00
About the Author00