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Take Me Back is an interview-based research project initiated by the Jewish Museum Trondheim, where the theme of “homecoming” is central. What does it mean to come back – to a city, a country, a life – after the war has taken away your family, security and community? This project examines how Jewish families rebuilt their lives in Trondheim after the Holocaust, and how post-war children experienced this process up close.
Interview-based research project initiated by the Jewish Museum Trondheim. Through interviews with contemporary witnesses and descendants, the theme of “homecoming”, memory work and how Jewish families resumed everyday life after the war are explored.
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When memories speak, they give us the key to an upbringing marked by both sorrow and hope – and to a generation that carried the light of the future in the shadow of war.
Take me back
How life was rebuilt, one moment at a time.
In 2022, the museum interviewed 20 Jewish people born in Trondheim between 1944 and 1952. Many of them were children of Auschwitz survivors or refugees who had returned from Sweden after the war. Through their stories, a diversity of experiences and experiences is revealed – from memories of safe homes and warm traditions, to more painful moments marked by grief, silence and exclusion. What the informants have in common is that they grew up in a society marked by reconstruction and optimism, but where the Jewish loss often remained undercommunicated.
The research project has resulted in the digital exhibition Take Me Back, which presents a rich selection of interview clips, images and reflections. The stories provide insight into Jewish childhood and identity in post-war Norway, and shed new light on how a new generation lived with the legacy of the Holocaust – and at the same time shaped a life in peacetime. The project thus provides both a valuable contribution to memory research and a unique insight into Norwegian-Jewish cultural history.
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