Oskar Mendelsohn

Oskar Mendelsohn was a Norwegian educator, non-fiction writer and historian.

Biography

Mendelsohn was born in Trondheim on 29 March 1912. He was a son of wholesaler Aron Mendelsohn and Thora Paltiel. In 1938 he married Sussi Melamed.
Among his books is a two-volume work on the history of Jews in Norway, published in 1969 and 1986. In 1990 he published a book on the persecution of Jews in Norway during World War II. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1989.