| LC control no. | n 88671453 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Nansen, Odd, 1901-1973 |
| Variant(s) | Nansen, Odd, 1901- |
| Birth date | 1901 |
| Death date | 1973 |
| Found in | nucx88-4706: Author's From day to day [MI] c1949 (hdg. on MH rept.: Nansen, Odd, 1901- ; usage: Odd Nansen) LC data base, 11/1/88 (hdg.: Nansen, Odd, 1901- ) His From day to day, 2016: ECIP title page (Odd Nansen) galley (born December 6, 1901; died June 27, 1973 at age seventy-one) Wikipedia, February 1, 2016 (Odd Nansen; born December 6, 1901; died June 27, 1973; Norwegian architect, author, and humanitarian, credited with his humanitarian efforts on behalf of Jews in the early years of World War II and for being a founder of UNICEF; he formed Nansenhjelpen in 1939 to provide relief for Jews fleeing Nazi persecution in central Europe, focusing his efforts on the situation in Czechoslovakia; his wife Kari Nansen, he, and Tove Filseth established a field office in Prague and traveled extensively in Europe in 1939 to get attention and help for refugees facing imminent destruction; after returning to Norway, he joined the Norwegian resistance and was himself arrested and detained by the Gestapo, and ultimately deported to the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen) |
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