Per Græsli, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Per Græsli

Norwegian resistance member

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1903

Date of Death: 26-Jul-1945

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Per Græsli

  • Per Johan Græsli (23 February 1903 – 26 July 1945) was a Norwegian physician and resistance member. He was born in Trondhjem to Ole Græsli (1880–1940) from Tydal and Ingeborg Kjersem (1876–1944).
  • He was married, and lived in Hetland where he worked as a reserve physician at Rogaland Hospital.During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he joined the Norwegian resistance movement.
  • He worked with spreading the illegal press, and was a member of the group Milorg where he worked in the sanitary division.
  • He was arrested in Stavanger in July 1942.
  • He was incarcerated in Grini concentration camp until 3 May 1943, except for a period at Arkivet from 17 August 1942 to 29 March 1943.
  • In May 1943 he was transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
  • At the hospital in Sachsenhausen, he was tasked with leading the department of internal medicine.
  • He later built up the medical department in Neuengamme concentration camp.He had contracted pneumonia for the first time in December 1943, and suffered several setbacks in 1944.
  • In 1945 he was seriously ill and was sent to the Caroline Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Here he was awarded the Knighthood of the Order of St.
  • Olav by Sven Oftedal in the summer of 1945.
  • He died at the hospital in late July the same year.

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