Wanda Hjort Heger

Wanda Maria Heger, born Hjort ( born March 9, 1921 in Kristiania, now Oslo ) is a Norwegian, who supported Scandinavian prisoners in Germany during World War II.

Heger is the daughter of Johan Bernhard Hjort lawyer and came with him in 1942 as civilian internees by Grosskreutz, holding his mother Wanda Maria the family von der Marwitz. Shortly thereafter, she began visiting Norwegian and other Scandinavian prisoners in Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück and to provide them with the help of the Norwegian Red Cross medicines and food. Your so collected information led to the rescue of the white buses.

For their bailout it received in 1985, the Knight's Cross of St. Olav Order.

In 1994, their story part of the documentary Luce, Wanda, Jelena - It was not their war of Raimund Koplin and Renate Stegmüller.

Works

  • Wanda Heger: Every Friday at the gate: the woman's report, which has saved the lives of Germany in the years 1942-1945 many Scandinavian prisoners in concentration camps, allowing the bailout of Count Bernadotte. Munich: Snow Kluth, 1989 ISBN 3-7951-1132-3
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