NORWAY GETS A HOLOCAUST MUSEUM

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY
Aug. 23, 2006

The home of Norway’s wartime leader, a Nazi collaborator, was turned
into a Holocaust museum.

The villa of Vikdun Quisling, who was executed in 1945 after leading
a puppet government that supported the Nazis, now houses the Center
for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, inaugurated
Wednesday by Norway’s Queen Sonja and Princess Mette-Marit. The center
will focus on the Holocaust and feature displays on the persecution
of minorities in Africa, Armenia, Cambodia, the Balkans and Rwanda.

The renovated villa was given to the Jewish community by the Norwegian
government five years ago.

Some 800 Jews, about half the country’s prewar population, were killed
in the Holocaust.