Oscar Ihlebæk, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Oscar Ihlebæk

Norwegian resistance member

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1900

Date of Death: 10-Mar-1945

Profession: newspaper editor

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Oscar Ihlebæk

  • Oscar Ihlebæk (9 October 1900 – 10 March 1945) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and resistance member. He was born in Drammen, to a mother from Skoger and a father from Rakkestad.
  • In 1926 he married Fredrikke Wium from Drammen, and they had two children.
  • At the time he resided in Asker where he chaired the local Socialist Youth League chapter.He had secondary education.
  • He was a journalist in his hometown newspaper Fremtiden, then the main organ of the Social Democratic Labour Party, Den nye Social-Demokraten, before becoming a subeditor in Bergens Arbeiderblad in 1927.
  • He was promoted to editor-in-chief in 1939.
  • He was a board member of the Norwegian Press Association from 1936, and from 1939 he was a deputy board member in Den Nationale Scene.During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was fired by the Nazi authorities in November 1940.
  • He joined the Norwegian resistance movement, but was captured.
  • He was imprisoned in Espeland concentration camp from 29 January 1943, then Grini concentration camp from 11 May 1943.
  • In the winter he was sent to Germany.
  • He was held in Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 15 December 1943, then Gross-Rosen concentration camp from 26 December 1944.
  • He was later moved to Bergen-Belsen, where he died.

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