Sophie Anfinsen (Rasmussen) - Jewish background of Sophie Anfinsen (Rasmussen)

Remi Trygve Pedersen, Harald Tveit Alvestrand

Found her in the 1910 Norway census. Will enter her family from here:

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/census/person/pf01036708028288

The Norway branch of the Holocaust is fairly well documented, so it should be possible to track down her family.

The Harbitz family is the one that seems to have a Jewish name.
However, the Harbitz familiy doesn't seem to have been practicing Jews in the last few generations. One of the family was a pastor and parliamentarian: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Prahl_Harbitz

The progenitor was probably German or Dutch and died in 1808, according to Wikipedia. I haven't established the link yet.

Found his father's family too, and some Geni trees to merge them to. Lots of links now!
But no Holocaust victims yet.

Excellent! Thank you so much.

Randy

This one looks like he might be related Private

This one might also be related. Wife was Jewish. Private

I was able to link the last one into the tree - he's the grandson of a Norwegian professor of medicine (deceased). I don't know if Eilif Harbitz-Rasmussen was Norwegian or Danish.

Or rather: I know that Eilif Harbitz-Rasmussen is a maker of floating docks who lives in Bergen, but I have no idea who his parents are.

He's also at https://www.facebook.com/people/Eilif-Harbitz-rasmussen/10000972901...

These families certainly didn't declare as Jewish before 1854, though. They seem well established in Norway long before Jews were allowed to settle in Norway. (Apologies on behalf of my ancestors!)

Strange. Maybe we can find a connection to the two Rasmussens I found on JewishGen.

Rasmussen is a patronymic - "son of Rasmus". There are thousands of unrelated Rasmussens in the Nordics, so I wouldn't hold out high hope here.

I think most of the Holocaust victims in Norway should be on this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_deportees_from_Norway_...

No Rasmussen, Schultz or Harbitz on that list, it seems.
It seems exceedingly likely that the family story is not a true story.

With the relatively low number and excellent documentation of Holocaust victims from Norway, it seems like an entirely feasible project to create a Geni project covering all the victims.

Would such a thing be appropriate to do?

Of course!

Done: https://www.geni.com/projects/Holocaust-victims-from-Norway/49015

Another list to work my way down .... slowly.

Sent request fb.