Beisfjord
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Beisfjord is a village approx. 15 km (10 miles) from the town of Narvik, Norway. It has about 800 inhabitants. The village is situated by Beisfjorden an arm of Ofotfjorden, and is served by Beisfjord Bridge.
Beisfjord was the location of one of the most notorious concentration camps during World War II in Norway. In this camp for Russian and Yugoslav prisoners of war 1,500 died during the war, 300 in one night from a typhoid epidemic.
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