Resistance

A plaque dedicated to two Norwegian victims of the Nazis during World War II. One, fireman and resistance fighter Kristian Aubert, died on February 19, 1942 after eight days of interrogation by the Gestapo. The other, Anna Eilertsen Østby, a government archivist, was imprisoned from July 2, 1943 until her death from typhus at the Grini concentration camp on 23 April 1945 - 15 days before the end of the German occupation of Norway. I gather they were residents of the building that used to stand here, but now the plaque dedicated to them sits over a rubbish bin at the entrance to a supermarket.
Aubert was the first prisoner tortured to death at the Grini concentration camp, south-west of Oslo. He gave nothing away during his interrogation, thereby saving the lives of many other resistance fighters.
Thanks to Anthea for mentioning this, I'd been in that supermarket several times without seeing the plaque.

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