in detail
On 31 July 1945, the day the Jewish post-war Community was formally established in Trondheim, an initiative was launched to set up a monument at the Jewish cemetery to the Jewish victims of the German occupation.
After sufficient funding had been gathered in 1947, the Monument Committee commissioned the Danish-Jewish sculptor Harald Isenstein to design the monument. The design chosen features an altar as its base from which three pillars rise. A dedication reminds the Jewish Community of Trondheim of the fate of the Jews of Trondheim and northern Norway, shot, deported and murdered during the German occupation between 1940 and 1945. The pillars bear engraved the names of the 130 Jews who were murdered.
The monument was officially dedicated on 13 October 1947 in the presence of the Danish chief rabbi Marcus Melchior. There were speeches at the ceremony by the survivor Julius Paltiel and the district superintendent of Trondelag.
When the Jewish post-war Community was established in Trondheim in July 1945, an initiative was launched to create a monument at the Jewish cemetery to the memory of the Jews of Trondheim and northern Norway murdered during the German occupation.
The Monument Committee commissioned the Danish-Jewish sculptor Harald Isenstein to design the monument, which was officially dedicated on 13 October 1947.
31 July 1945
Initiative to create a monument to the memory of the Jews of Trondheim and northern Norway murdered during the German occupation.
1947
Commissioning of the Danish-Jewish sculptor Harald Isenstein to design the Memorial.
13. Oktober 1947
Official dedication of the monument in the presence of the Danish chief rabbi Marcus Melchior, the survivor Julius Paltiel and the district superintendent of Trondelag.
Trondheim, 13 October 1947, opening ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial at the Jewish cemetery, Bjarte Bruland.
Trondheim, 1980s, Monument for the murdered Jews of Trondheim and northern Norway, Norges Hjemmefrontmuseum.
