On What Grounds Are You Arresting Me?

With these words the lawyer Håkon Laksov confronted the two Norwegian police officers who came to arrest him in his home in Oslo on October 26, 1942. Indeed, the arrest order had been signed just two days earlier. Concurrently with the arrest the policemen confiscated two of his clocks. His wife Amalie asked if she could possibly keep the engagement ring, which they ultimately allowed. He was taken to the police station in Kirkeveien 23, then to Bredtvedt prison, and thereafter interned in the Berg prison camp. Håkon Laksov was murdered at Auschwitz along with his four brothers-in-law.