In Spite of It All

Julius Paltiel grew up in Trondheim, Norway, where he lived with his mother and his brother. Like all the Jews of Norway, their lives changed forever when the Nazis came to power in April 1940. His arrest at the age of eighteen in 1942 marked the beginning of a journey of inconceivable horror and brutality in the Nazi concentration camps. Initially incarcerated in Falstad, Norway, he was then deported to Germany before boarding a train to Auschwitz. He was selected for forced labor to work for IG Farben in Auschwitz III-Monowitz, and in January 1945 he was sent on a death march to Buchenwald where he was liberated by U.S. forces. In Spite of It All sheds light on Julius Paltiel's personal ordeal to survive the Holocaust as well as on the Jewish persecution and murder of Norway's Jewish community.