The Price of Survival

Marcus Levin, Norwegian Holocaust Humanitarian

Irene Levin Berman

• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780761871309
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Biographies religieuses

In The Price of Survival: Marcus Levin, Norwegian Holocaust Humanitarian, Irene Levin Berman tells the story of her father's heroic attempts to save the Jews of Norway, as well as hundreds of stateless refugees who had escaped other European countries in the 1930s, from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Marcus Levin worked tirelessly to help Jews before and after the Nazis invaded Norway, and after the war he worked with the American Joint Distribution Committee and organizations in Norway such as the Jewish Social Unit to help find homes and jobs for the few Norwegian Jews who survived the concentration camps as well as about 600 stateless Displaced Persons. In 1962 Marcus Levin was awarded a gold Medal of Honor by King Olav of Norway in recognition of his efforts during World War II.

Table of contents

• List of Illustrations
• Personal Introduction
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Why This Story?
• 1900: Beginning of a New Century
• The Levin Family
• Father’s Life in Oslo
• Pre-War Years
• April 9, 1940: War
• 1941: The War Continues
• October–November 1942: Germans Pursue the Jews
• October 24–November 1942: Escape to Sweden
• November 25–26, 1942: Escape and Arrest of Jewish Women and Children
• The Donau—TDeath Ship
• The Extermination of Jews in Auschwitz
• Efforts to Save Lives
• 1942–1946: Working in Sweden
• Refugees and the Joint Distribution Committee
• The War Is Over—Back to Norway
• 1947: Father’s Philosophy—Personal Unresolved Issues
• 1945: Returning from the Holocaust
• Return from Auschwitz: Post-war Contact with the Norwegian Government in London
• 1946: Displaced Persons
• 1948: The European Children’s Camp in Norway
• 1938: A Jewish Children’s Home in Oslo—Boys and Girls from Vienna
• 1953–1955: Minus Refugees
• Circa 1960: Reconstruction in Norway after the War
• Compensation for Norwegians
• The King of Norway and the Watch
• 1965: Father’s Last Years
• Our Family Becomes Part of the JDC
• 1943–1946: Childhood Memories of Sweden
• Learning about the Meaning of the Holocaust
• Growing up Both Norwegian and Jewish
• Looking Back with Ruth
• January 2012: The Prime Minister of Norway Apologizes to the Norwegian Jews
• My Philosophy Connected to Prime Minister Stoltenberg
• Afterword
• About the Author