The Partisans

During the autumn of 1940 about one hundred of men, women and children escaped from Eastern Finnmark to the Soviet Union. They fled from the Germans, and they intended to continue their fight to liberate Norway from the Soviets. Having been trained by the Soviet Union intelligent services, later on, some of them returned to Norway for various missions back to the Germans front lines.

However, the Partisans would not have been able to accomplish their assigned missions, hadn’t it been for the network of assistants whom the partisans knew and to whom they trusted at home, in Norway. Having to live a dangerous life among the Germans, these reliable helpers succeeded to facilitate for a regular exchange of information on the manoeuvres and constructions of the Germans in the area, as well as supplies of food and clothing to the partisans.

In the Partisans Museum of Kiberg you will get a chance to learn more about the fight that the partisans carried out, about the losses that they suffered, and on the suspicions and the surveillance to which they were subject during the cold war. The Partisans Museum is open during summer from 10:00 to 18:00 and by demand throughout the year.