Places Mentioned in the Shoebox Letters
Below are places mentioned on more than one occasion in the letters. Double-click to zoom in on an area. Click and drage to move the map.
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- Bergen - Large city on western coast of Norway. (Items)
- Bodø - Town in northern Norway. (Items)
- Dell Rapids - Town in South Dakota. (Items)
- Dunderlandsdalen - A valley near Rana in Nordland county. (Items)
- Fagernestoppen - A mountain next to Narvik. (Items)
- Falstad Concentration Camp - Prison camps during WWII for political prisoners. (Items)
- Finnmark - County in northeast Norway. (Items)
- Fornebu - Location of Oslo airport. (Items)
- Galesburg - Probably referring to the town in North Dakota. (Items)
- Grini Concentration Camp - The most famous of the WWII prison camps in Norway. (Items)
- Heggedal - An area that is now part of greater Oslo. (Items)
- Hegra festning - A famous fortress that held out stubbornly against German attacks in 1940 (Items)
- Hegra - Village outside of Trondheim. (Items)
- Hell - A village and famous train station not far from Hegra. (Items)
- Levanger - Town in Nord-Trøndelag. (Items)
- Minneapolis - City in Minnesot.a (Items)
- Narvik - Town in northern Norway. (Items)
- Opdal - Now Oppdal-an area in Sør-Trøndelag. (Items)
- Oslo - Capital of Norway. (Items)
- Stjørdal - Town outside of Trondheim. (Items)
- Stjørdalshalsen - The center of Stjørdal town. (Items)
- Sundalsøra - Probably the community now known as Sunndalsøra. (Items)
- Trollheimen - Mountain range in Sør-Trøndelag. (Items)
- Trondheim - Now the third largest city in Norway. (Items)
- Vesterålen - A collection of islands in northern Norway. (Items)
- Værnes - Near Stjørdal and location of Trondheim airport. (Items)
- Østersund - Town in Sweden. (Items)