Historia de Kathe

With great care and impeccable handwriting, fifteen-year-old Kathe Rita Lasnik, a high school student in Oslo, filled out the "Questionnaire for Jews in Norway". And to the question "When did you come to this country?", She answered her: "I have always been in Norway". The form is dated November 16, 1942. Ten days later, she, her parents, and one of her sisters were deported along with 528 other Jews on the Donau ship. On December 1, Kathe would die in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Through a meticulous search of archives, records and censuses, Espen Søbye carries out with exemplary sobriety a necessary and luminous exercise in microhistory to rescue an ill-fated individual destiny from oblivion, a life buried by the violent upheavals of the European 20th century.