Cissi Pera Klein (19 April 1929 in Narvik – 3 March 1943 in

Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It co ...

) was a Norwegian Jewish girl who is commemorated every year as one of the victims of the Holocaust in her home town in Trondheim. Her parents had emigrated to Norway from the

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around 1905, at first living in

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, but then establishing a retail store in Trondheim. She was arrested at her school on 6 October 1942, detained, and ultimately

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with the transport ship ''Gotenland'' from Oslo to

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, from which she was sent by train to

, where she was murdered the day she arrived, on 3 March 1943. She was 13 years old. Cissi Klein became famous in her home town of Trondheim in the mid-1990s, when the city decided to appoint one of its 72 residents who were deported as a symbol for the persecution during the war. In 1995, the street where she lived was named Cissi Kleins gate, and a statue of her made by Tore Bjørn Skjølsvik and Tone Ek was unveiled in the park nearby in 1997. In memory of the day she was removed from her school by police, pupils from the Kalvskinnet Primary School visit the park on 6 October every year to lay flowers. The composer

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has written a musical piece in her memory.

Gallery

Cissi Klein Gedenktafel (Trondheim).jpg, Stolperstein für Cissi Pera Klein (Trondheim).jpg, Stolpersteine und Strassenschild Cissi Kleins gate (Trondheim).jpg,

References

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