Trkheimer FritzJosef

Norwegian Jewish correspondent and victim of the Holocaust. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland (father) and Germany (mother). His father died in 1921. In the the four volume work "Våre Falne [Our Fallen] 1939-1945," commissioned by the Norwegian government in 1945 to commemorate those who had perished during the war, Türkheimers entry is in Volume 4, p. 435. Türkheimer was deported on 26 November 1942 as part of the Holocaust where he died in Auschwitz shortly after arrival. His mother was arrested and deported on 24 February 1943 and died in Germany some days later on 2 March. Read less