Aasmund Steenstrup was arrested at half past five in the morning and transported straight to the main police station at Møllergata 19 in Oslo. He remembers the early days of his imprisonment as being very hard. At Vollan Gaol in Trondheim, he was kept in a narrow isolation cell measuring 1.5 x 2.5 m, with hardly any human contact. There was little light, the food came in half a tin can, and the toilet was a metal bucket shoved in a corner of the cell.

Aasmund emerged from isolation after four long weeks. He was sent first to Falstad Concentration Camp and later to Grini, where he remained until the war ended. He remembers the rush of joy and jubilation when the prisoners were told on 7 May 1945 that Norway was once again a free country. Nevertheless, it would be three years before he managed to speak about his experiences.

Aasmund Steenstrup