Irene Levin Berman is author of “We Are Going to Pick Potatoes”: Norway and the Holocaust, the Untold Story and Norway Wasn’t Too Small: A Fact-Based Novel about Darkness and Survival.

• List of IllustrationsviiPersonal IntroductionPrefaceAcknowledgmentsWhy This Story . . . ?31900: Beginning of a New Century5The Levin Family00Father’s Life in Oslo00Pre-War Years00April 9, 1940: War001941: The War Continues00October–November 1942: Germans Pursue the Jews00October 24-November 1942: Escape to Sweden00November 25–26, 1942: Escape and Arrest of Jewish Women and Children00The Donau—The Death Ship00The Extermination of Jews in Auschwitz00Efforts to Save Lives001942–1946: Working in Sweden00Refugees and the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)00The War Is Over—Back to Norway001947: Father’s Philosophy—Personal Unresolved Issues001945: Returning from the Holocaust00Return from Auschwitz: Post-war Contact with the Norwegian Government in London001946: Displaced Persons001948: The European Children’s Camp in Norway001938: A Jewish Children’s Home in Oslo—Boys and Girls from Vienna001953–1955: Minus Refugees00Circa 1960: Reconstruction in Norway after the War00Compensation for Norwegians00The King of Norway and the Watch001965: Father’s Last Years00Our Family Becomes Part of the JDC001943–1946: Childhood Memories of Sweden00Learning about the Meaning of the Holocaust00Growing up Both Norwegian and Jewish00Looking Back with Ruth00January 2012: The Prime Minister of Norway Apologizes to theNorwegian Jews00My Philosophy Connected to Prime Minister Stoltenberg00About the Author00

As much as we have continued to learn about the details of the Holocaust in past decades, there remain dimensions of the tragedy that are only now emerging into larger awareness. Irene Berman, in this her latest work, offers a moving and compelling personal account of the impact of the Nazi machine on the Jews of her native Norway. The courageous and untiring devotion of her father Marcus Levin to the salvation and well-being of the victims is a shining beacon in an era of fearful darkness. The Price of Survival is not only a loving daughter’s tribute to her humanitarian father, but also a work of deep honor to the victims and hope to those who face unfathomable evil.