Phillip Philipson and the Holocaust

Annually, close to the 26^th of November, the museum has an outreach programme for Berlevåg School. The older students come to the site of one of Norway’s northernmost Stolpersteine, laid down in 2019, to polish it and learn about the Holocaust. Phillip Philipson (1897–1943) was Jewish and lived in Berlevåg. In the fall of 1942, he was deported by the Nazis and sent on the ship Donau to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where he was killed.

The outreach programme contextualises the Stolpersteine and Philipson’s life. We talk about the Norwegian Jews and what was lost because of the Holocaust, about antisemitism and the persecution of Jewish people during World War II as well as the roots of this antisemitism. Lastly, we talk about why Holocaust remembrance is important.