Olav Brunvand collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.165.1

Overview

Description: Contains a note written clandestinely on on scraps of paper by Olav Brunvand (donor's uncle), a Norwegian journalist arrested and imprisoned in the Rendsburg prison in Germany. The note was written using materials snuck in by Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, who visited over a dozen prisons regularly in her capacity of censor. Zassenhaus agreed to sneak written pages out of the prison for Brunvand and buried them in her garden, retrieving them after the War in 1945 and returned them to Brunvand. Olav was liberated in 1945 in Denmark.
Date: issue: circa 1940
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Richard Olaf Brunvand
Collection Creator: Olav A. Brunvand

Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
Copyright Holder: Mr. Richard O. Brunvand

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Written by Olav Brunvand while imprisoned in Rendburg prison in Germany, circa 1940. Smuggled out of the prison by Hiltgunt Zassenhaus and buried in her garden. In the summer of 1945, Zassenhaus returned the notes to Brunvand. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Richard Brunvand.