Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies

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HL center in Villa Grande in Bygdøy near Oslo .

The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies ( Norwegian Senter for studier av Holocaust og livssynsminoriteter ) also known as “HL-senteret” or “Holocaustsenteret” (Holocaust center) on Bygdøy in Oslo , is a foundation established in 2001 by the University of Oslo and the Norwegian government on the initiative of the Jewish community in Oslo. It also maintains solid relationships with the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem and the Jewish Museum in Trondheim .

The share capital came from a compensation fund for expropriated Jewish property in Norway during the Second World War. The center serves to research and impart knowledge about the Holocaust , discrimination , genocide and human rights , as well as promoting moral courage and acceptance of minorities in society. The center refers to relevant historical and current events on this topic around the world with a special focus on Norway. The director of the center is Guri Hjeltnes . The balance sheet total of the foundation at the end of 2010 was 50,963,923 crowns .

The center was set up on Bygdøy in Oslo in the Villa Grande , which from 1940 to 1945 had been the Gimle war residence of the Norwegian fascist politician and Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling .

Odd-Bjørn Fure was Research Director from 2002 to 2012 . Fure argued that the Norwegian fascist party Nasjonal Samling (NS) was responsible for the most serious national crimes during World War II , particularly when it came to the extradition of Norwegian citizens and refugees, including Jews, to German authorities. Many of these people died in German concentration camps such as Auschwitz . If the German occupation in Norway had lasted a little longer, in Fure's view the persecutions would have been even stronger, which would also affect other minorities accordingly. In this context, found material is exhibited in a permanent exhibition of the center that the Nasjonal Samling had corresponding plans and toyed with the idea of ​​a Jewish final solution to the so-called Resandefolket problem. Resandefolket ( German  traveling people ) in Sweden and Norway mainly refers to the Sinti and Roma minorities. The stigmatization and branding of minorities is one of the worst human tendencies and even if such an ideology becomes established, history shows that there were also normal people without fear who helped those affected.

On August 23, 2006, the Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies in the Villa Grande was officially opened, in this context Gudleiv Forr from Dagbladet reported on a unique center in Norway. Forr justified this by saying that the center is not “only” its focus on one of the worst crimes of mankind, but because it also presents the Holocaust from the perspective of global persecutions and traditions in modern history.

Concerning the same thing, Harald Stanghelle pointed out in the Aftenposten that the center opened at a time when the last witnesses of the struggle against National Socialism are leaving us, while anti-Semitism is increasing again today. In an editorial in the Morgenbladet , Alf van der Hagen wrote that the center in the Villa Grande shows us and conveys what irrational beliefs can do. Current examples are also current crimes, such as the genocide in Darfur or resentment in current Iran , which today defines itself as anti-Semitic.

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  1. ↑ Senter for studier av Holocaust and livssynsminoriteter: Årsrapport 2010. (pdf; 4.0 MB) In: nohlsenteret.no. January 1, 2011, accessed August 11, 2013 (Norwegian).
  2. ^ Gimle - villa on Bygdøy in Oslo. (No longer available online.) In: snl.no. Store norske leksikon , September 20, 2011, archived from the original on March 17, 2014 ; Retrieved August 11, 2013 (Norwegian).
  3. ↑ Gimle. In: snl.no. Store norske leksikon , November 8, 2011, accessed August 11, 2013 (Norwegian).
  4. ↑ Gudleiv Forr : "Å Forsta histories". In: dagbladet.no. Dagbladet , August 19, 2006, accessed August 11, 2013 (Norwegian).
  5. ↑ Harald Stanghelle : "Villa Grandes tidskryss". In: aftenposten.no. Aftenposten , August 23, 2006, accessed August 11, 2013 (Norwegian).
  6. ↑ Alf van der Hagen : "Det norske Holocaust". (No longer available online.) In: morgenbladet.no. Morgenbladet , August 25, 2006, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved August 11, 2013 (Norwegian).

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