David GraylessMay 14, 2025
#ErikWaaler (5 April 1910 – 28 March 1991) was a Norwegian shipping executive. He was born in #Kristiania as a son of Thorleif Waaler (1877–1920) and Elise Skovli (1887–1943). He finished his secondary education in 1930 and took #OsloCommerceSchool in 1931. In 1939 he married Ingjerd Lund Eriksen. They did not have children. He was hired as a sub-director in #BergenskeDampskibsselskab in 1949, and was the company's chief executive officer from 1961 to 1967.
Auschwitz MemorialOct 27, 2023

27 October 1918 | Norwegian Jewish woman, Tonny Segal, was born in Kristiania (today Oslo). 

She arrived at Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

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royfockeMay 4, 2023

„Hunger“ Knut Hamsun

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See ScandinaviaFeb 5, 2023

🇳🇴 Karl Johans gate, the main street of the city of Oslo in Norway, captured by an unknown photographer during the time when the city was still called Kristiania. It was renamed Oslo only in 1925, after one of its suburbs.

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