In November 1942, when she was 3 years old, she fled with her mother
and nine other persons across the border from Norway to Sweden. The
Nazis occupied Norway and it was dangerous for her Jewish family to
stay there. During the flight she started to scream of fright and
coldness. One of the fugitives wanted to strangle her, because her
screaming set all their lives in great danger. But instead they got the
idea of giving her a mixture of sleeping pills and frozen lingonberry.
It worked and they could carry the sleeping child across the border to
Sweden.