At 11 o’clock at night on 23 February 1945, seven men came to the door of the Høegh-Larsen family home in Langesund. They had come to arrest the family’s 21-year-old daughter, Randi. A few days later, she was taken to Grini prison camp. There, Randi and the other female prisoners were kept apart from the rest of the camp in a separate section. For large parts of the day, she was shut inside the vast main building, where the women laboured to launder and mend the clothes of the male prisoners and the German officers. It was hard physical work.

After two and a half months, the war ended and Randi could return to her home in Langesund.

“Coming back to Langesund after the war was lovely. I can hardly describe it, because it was just so fantastic that peace had returned.”

Randi Christensen (née Høegh-Larsen)