There is a Party Tonight and We’re going to Pick up the Small Packages This Time
This code sentence meant that the Jewish children would be arrested the next day, November 26, 1942. When they heard these words, Sigrid Helliesen Lund from the Nansen relief organization and child psychiatrist Nic Waal immediately thought of the Jewish orphanage in Oslo. Nic Waal went straight there together with the orphanage supervisor Nina Hasvold and made the children put on their best clothes, two sets. The children sneaked out the back door carrying their boots in their hands. Nic Waal drove the children to Gerda Tanberg in 1 Veslekroken at Ullern. Prior to the next Jewish deportation, some of these children were moved to other secure locations in Oslo. Sigrid Helliesen Lund contributed to the escape with food and other essentials.
Taxi driver Martin Solvang brought the children to the border. Ola Rauken and Ola Breisjøberget took them across the border. Fourteen children from the orphanage were thus saved and lived in Alingsås in Sweden until the end of the war.