OSLO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Norway on Monday marked the International Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember those who died during the Nazi genocide during World War II.
Norwegian King Harald V attended the event held at the quayside memorial site outside the walls of the Akershus Fortress in Oslo, from where 532 Jews boarded the cargo ship Donau on Nov. 26, 1942, heading to Nazi camps.
Millions of Jews, Roma, homosexuals, disabled persons and opponents to Germany's fascist regime and its collaborators were killed during the Holocaust.
In all, 25 million civilians were killed by Nazis during World War II, said the Norwegian news agency NTB.
Norway was invaded by Nazi German forces on April 9, 1940, and remained occupied until May 1945 when Germans were defeated.
In autumn 1942 and spring 1943, several hundred Norwegian Jews were arrested by Norwegian policemen collaborating the German Nazi occupation army.
More than a third of Norway's 2,100 Jews then were deported to death camps.
Out of the 772 deported Jewish Norwegians or Jewish refugees, only a few dozen survived and returned to Norway after the war.
On separate occasions in 2012, both then Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Norwegian police chief apologized for the deportation on behalf of the Norwegian government and police.
