The Jewish Museum

 

In a beautiful blue house you find the Synagogue and the Jewish Museum of Trondheim.

 

I have passed the house hundreds of times, wanted to visit but never found the opportunity, until today....

 

The Blue House has three floors, the basement with an exhibition showing the life of Jews in Trondheim, the ground floor with a 2nd Word War Memorial and the synagogue up on the first floor.

 

The first Jews came to Norway in 1852, to Trondheim in the beginning of the 1880ies.

 

Most of the male Jews in Trondheim were sent to Auschwitz in Poland during the war. Only 4 of them returned in 1945.

 

The museum was opened in 1997, when Trondheim celebrated its 1000 anniversary, and was reopened in October 2001 after a restoration.

 

The museum's webpage

 

 

Comments

[Tracy]

That sea-blue houses a most wonderful place...thanks for taking us there...can very much feel the spirit of the place... Happy weekend, Britt-Arnhild :o)

[Caterina B]

This was very interesting. That is so sad, that only 4 men returned. I don't wish to sound ignorant but here goes. Is there a lot of religious tolerance in Norway? I just remember my Norwegian Lutheran relatives not being tolerant of other religions. They ostracized my cousin because she married a Catholic. (that was back in the 50's or 60's when I was still a child)

[Kristi Ellison Jalics]

This was a worthwhile if very sad place to see. I grieve that we human beings do such terrible things to one another. But we also do good things and I hope my life will help that increase. But it is heartbreaking.

[Karen]

I can't tell you how much I appreciated seeing all this. It could break your heart.

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Congratulations on your brand new blog! You live in a wonderful city! I enjoyed so much those beautiful photos and I will return soon.

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