Gro harlem brundtland biography book

My life surely startedat a most intense moment of history, just four months before warbroke out in Europe. In the summer of Pappa turned twenty-one and assumedcontrol of a small inheritance from his father, who died when Pappawas an infant. Twenty-five thousand Kroner wentto the moving spirits behind a workers' encyclopedia, so they couldrealize their dream.

Gubbe provided the capital and even joined thewriting team. But he also bought an apartment at Camilla Collett'sWay No. The architect haddesigned the seventh floor especially for Aase Bye, the most prominentactress at the time, but when the Harlems moved in, it was putto an entirely different use. The large living room was divided toprovide an extra bedroom and the dining room was divided in two.

Thus the elegant apartment became a seven-bedroom collective. But Pappa, determinedto show his sporty Swedish wife the beauty of the Norwegianmountains, took her on a holiday to the Jotunheimen. Iremained at home in the care of Grandma Margareta, who had traveledfrom Stockholm to look after me. But the idyll was short-lived. The German strategic surprise attack on Norway started in theearly hours of April 9.

One of the women who lived with us inCC2, another new mother, had been a volunteer against Franco inthe Spanish Civil War. She decided that her child should be sparedfuture air raids spent in the cellar. As she recalls it, "I try to get theyoung couple we are living with to dry the baby's diapers, but a futureDefense Minister [Pappa] refuses to take the matter seriously.

The next morning we dispatch my baby and the young mother[Mamma] with her baby to a cabin outside of Lillehammer in a deliverytruck. That other baby, the future Prime Minister, has totravel with a suitcase full of wet diapers. The following day she made the long trip down toLillehammer and back again. The Germans had already occupiedthe town and there were soldiers in the streets.

They were with members of the government as the Norwegiandefense campaign began to emerge. The improvised Norwegiandefense managed to resist for two months and even gave theGermans their first tactical defeat of the war at Narvik. Mamma decidedto go to Stockholm and hand me over for safekeeping to hermother.

Gro harlem brundtland biography book

Shortly afterward she traveled north through Sweden andFinland to join Pappa, who was now already in Tromsx. At the border she ran into problems-no one could quite makeout the purpose of her journey. She had to call Dr. Evang inTromsx. Once he confirmed her identity, she was allowed to pass. On June 7 King Haakon and his government were forced to leaveNorway.

Largely by chance, Mamma and Pappa did not travelwith the convoy to England. At the last moment Dr. Evang decidedthat they should return to Oslo and work for the Resistance at theUniversity. Several weeks passed while I was left in the care of my grandmother;I even learned to walk. When Mamma opened the door tofind me playing on the floor, I rose and ran to greet her.

But I didnot easily forgive the separation: It took months before I would allowMamma out of my sight again. For the first two years of the war, daily life continued in more orless normal fashion, but food was in short supply, and heatingproved problematic in the severe winters. My parents continuedtheir studies even as they became involved in illegal activities.

Mamma worked on the publication of the newspaper Free TradeUnion. At all hours the smell of correcting fluid wafted from one ofthe two rooms that made up the original dining room in CC2. Thetypewriter had to be kept hidden. My parents did not even knowthe names of those to whom they delivered the paper. All precautionswere taken to minimize the risk of the networks beingexposed.

We froze that winter. The temperature indoors was often as lowas 50 degrees Fahrenheit. My father sewed sleeping bags for me andmy little brother, Erik. Made out of old wool blankets, the sleepingbags itched. After the war they remained on a shelf down in one ofthe basement lockers for many years. You never know, after all. Arrest and Flight In the occupying forces were tightening their grip.

Several ofthe students active in the CC2 group were instructed to assist agroup of Norwegian Jews who needed to go into hiding to avoidbeing transported to Germany. CC2 was a dangerous address tohave. People came and went. Strangers often stayed overnightwith us. In autumn relations between the Nazi authorities and theUniversity deteriorated and on the night of October 15 the policearrested fifty students and ten professors.

This action would haveserious repercussions for the CC2 student group. The Norwegian Nazi police came in the early hours of the morning. Along the way, she met a host of international politicians, including Margaret Thatcher-who did not share Brundtland's view on feminism-Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Ronald Reagan, and Hillary Clinton.

Brundtland writes candidly and with humor about raising children in the political limelight and about dealing with political opposition and stereotypes about women. Hers is a fascinating story of one person's ability to make a difference-globally. This action would have serious repercussions for the CC2 student group. The Norwegian Nazi police came in the early hours of the morning.

They had warrants for the arrest of two of the students. Both were taken. They did not discover my father sleeping in the same room. Nor did they ask for him by name, so presumably his name was on a different list. He at once made his way down the narrow fire escape. Half an hour later the German police, the Gestapo, came. This time they wanted Gudmund Harlem--a bigger catch than the first two.

They failed to find him, so they took his young wife. She protested loudly when they tried to check another room where her sister-in-law Gegga lay sleeping: "She's just a schoolgirl! Ola told him that Mamma had been arrested, and Pappa's first reaction was that perhaps he ought to turn himself in. Ola disagreed. Pappa was the one they really wanted for his activities as an organizer of illegal resistance work among the students.

Pappa went into hiding in Ola's mother's house. A few hours later my mother was released. She had Swedish parents, and the Germans set store by their good relationship with the Swedish authorities; it was not the first time the accident of my mother's birthright had come to my parents' assistance. Now they had to make their way to Sweden as quickly as possible.

Earlier that year, my Grandma Margareta had managed to get a diplomat's passport and travel papers that enabled her to retrieve Erik and me and take us on the train from Norway back to Stockholm. Grandma had her work as a solicitor to take care of, so Erik and I were sent to a children's home just outside the city. We stayed there for almost five months.

Erik was just three years old; I was four. Mamma and Pappa remained in hiding during those cold autumn weeks and had to keep on the move all the time, equipping themselves with forged papers. At one point Pappa's sister Gegga received a message to meet them and bring a backpack with a few of their clothes. As Mamma and Pappa were cycling, they were stopped by a German patrol because Pappa was wearing the backpack.

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