Cissi Klein
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Cissi Pera Klein was a Norwegian-Jewish girl from Trondheim who became one of the victims of the terrifying Holocaust. In the winter of 1942, she was arrested at school and sent to Oslo, where she and her family were detained. A few months later they were deported to Auschwitz by boat and train. Upon arrival at the infamous camp, Cissi was brutally sent to the gas chamber and killed at just 13 years old. In 1942, a systematic persecution began, with the arrest of all Norwegian Jews. During 1942 and 1943, a total of 773 Norwegian Jews were deported to German death camps. The largest deportation took place on 26 November 1942 when a total of 529 Jews were transported out of the country on the ship DS Donau. Most of the Norwegian Jews were sent to the Auschwitz death camp; where only 38 of them survived. With this, the Jews made up more than half of all Norwegians who were killed in German camps during the war. Cissi is remembered every year as one of the victims of the holocaust and had her own street named after her.