Wanda Heger
Wanda Maria Heger , b. Hjort (born March 9, 1921 in Kristiania ; † January 27, 2017 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian who supported Scandinavian prisoners in Germany during World War II.
Heger was the daughter of the lawyer Johan Bernhard Hjort and came with him in 1942 as a civil internee to Groß Kreutz , the property of his mother Wanda Maria von der Marwitz's family . Shortly afterwards, she began to visit Norwegian and other Scandinavian prisoners in Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück and, with the help of the Norwegian Red Cross, to get them medicines and food. The information gathered in this way led to the rescue operation of the White Buses .
In 1985 she received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Saint Olav for her rescue operation .
In 1994 her story became part of the documentary film Luce, Wanda, Jelena - It Wasn't Her War by Raimund Koplin and Renate Stegmüller .
Works
- Every Friday in front of the gate: the report of the woman who saved the lives of many Scandinavian prisoners in concentration camps in Germany from 1942–1945 and made the rescue operation of Count Bernadotte possible . Munich: Schneekluth, 1989 ISBN 3-7951-1132-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://jolstad.vareminnesider.no/choose_delivery_type.php?order_id=527669&set_site_id=75&booking_id=1268088&cat=OrderFlowers&action=buy_products&sign=0416fc31fd38b73b0a9fac8c522e
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heger, Wanda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heger, Wanda Maria (full name); Hjort, Wanda (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian rescuer of Scandinavian prisoners in Germany |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kristiania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 2017 |
| Place of death | Oslo |