1. Sylvia Salvesen was a member of the high society in Norway, and a resistance pioneer during World War II.
12 Facts About Sylvia Salvesen
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Sylvia Salvesen was arrested and sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany.
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Sylvia Salvesen witnessed at the Hamburg Ravensbruck Trials in 1946, and wrote a memoir book documenting her wartime experiences.
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Sylvia Salvesen was married to medical professor at Rikshospitalet in Oslo, Harald Salvesen.
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Sylvia Salvesen was a member of the high Society in Oslo, and a friend of the King's family.
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In 1938 Salvesen travelled to the United Kingdom along with Queen Maud, where she visited Scotland in order to study women's preparedness.
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Sylvia Salvesen was arrested a second time in September 1942, when she was held in isolation at Grini until June 1943.
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Sylvia Salvesen was then transferred with the ship SS Monte Rosa to Aarhus, and further by train transport via Hamburg to the Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany.
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Sylvia Salvesen was later able to send a complete list of the Norwegian female prisoners in Ravensbruck, brought by a German nurse to the people in Gross Kreutz.
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Sylvia Salvesen returned from Germany with the Swedish Red Cross and their White Buses operation.
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Sylvia Salvesen was the first witness to testify at the trial, from the afternoon 5 December 1946, continuing morning and afternoon on 6 December, and ending after cross examinations 7 December 1946.
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Sylvia Salvesen was awarded the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1965.