Falstad Centre

Falstad Centre
Falstadsenteret
Location in Nord-Trøndelag
Location in Nord-Trøndelag
Location Ekne, Norway
Coordinates 63°41′29.08″N 11°2′29.33″E / 63.6914111°N 11.0414806°E / 63.6914111; 11.0414806Coordinates: 63°41′29.08″N 11°2′29.33″E / 63.6914111°N 11.0414806°E / 63.6914111; 11.0414806
Website http://falstadsenteret.no/

The Falstad Centre (Norwegian: Falstadsenteret) and Falstad Museum is a memorial site in Ekne, Norway.

Location and history

The Falstad Centre is a memorial site and center for human rights.[1][2] The center consists of the Falstad concentration camp and Falstad Woods, which stand nearby and were used as an execution site by the German occupation authorities.[3][4] Today the woods are a war grave and protected national heritage site.

The Falstad Centre's director, Tone Jørstad, guides a group in the woods where prisoners were killed. The relief Arkebusering (Execution by Firing Squad), by Odd Hilt, shows a German firing squad executing three Norwegian patriots.

The Falstad Museum was established in 1995 in connection with the 50th anniversary of liberation at the end of the Second World War. It has been set up in the basement of what was the main building of the Falstad concentration camp (German: SS Strafgefangenenlager Falstad). The Falstad Centre foundation was established in 2000 and is a national educational and documentation center covering the wartime history of prisoners of war, humanitarian law, and human rights.[5] The center was opened on October 7, 2006.[1][6]

Exhibitions

The exhibition 70-årsmarkering for ankomsten av jugoslaviske fanger til Norge under andre verdenskrig (Seventieth Anniversary of the Arrival of Yugoslav Prisoners in Norway during World War II) was held at the center in 2012.[7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Ree, Toe Ole. 2016. Åsne om radikale søstre. Innherred (November 30).
  2. ↑ Reitan, Jon. 2011. The Nazi Camps in the Norwegian Historical Culture. In: Helle Bjerg, Claudia Lenz, Erik Thorstensen (eds.), Historicizing the Uses of the Past: Scandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness, and Didactics of History Related to World War II , pp. 57–76. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 67.
  3. ↑ Moen, Bjørn M. 2012. Gravskrifter. Trondheim: Communicatio Forlag AS.
  4. ↑ Reitan, Jon. 2005. Jødene fra Trondheim. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag, p. 101.
  5. ↑ Sem, Leiv. 2014. Black Holes of Memory: Defining a Norwegian Museum of Human Rights. In: Annette B. Fromm, Per B. Rekdal, & Viv Golding (eds.), Museums and Truth, pp. 101–124. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 102.
  6. ↑ Midjo, Per-Magne. 2015. Jørstad går av som direktør. Trønder-Avisa (June 30).
  7. ↑ Ognjenović, Gorana. 2012. Thanking the People of Norway / Takk til det norske folk. Jasenovac: Jasenovac Memorial.
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