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Walking the borderline in time and place, the story of a Norwegian Jewish survivor

            By Mona Levin, Norway

The border clearing in the forest that runs between Norway and Sweden is wide and open. The land border pillar number 35 is painted yellow. Two small flags, the Norwegian and the Swedish, are sway ever so slightly in the autumn air.

The occasion is the annual commemoration Refugee March, which follows the path through the forest that Norwegian cross border courier used when helping people escape the country during World War II helped not only Norwegian Jews escape the country.

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