Cissi Pera Klein was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 Jewish girl who is commemorated every year as one of the victims of the Holocaust in her home town in Trondheim

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

. Her parents had emigrated to Norway from the Baltic states

Baltic states

The term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...

 around 1905, at first living in North Norway, but then establishing a retail store in Trondheim. She was arrested at her school - Kalvskinnet skole - on October 6, 1942, detained, and ultimately deported

Jewish deportees from Norway during World War II

During the Nazi occupation of Norway, German authorities deported about 768 individuals of Jewish background to concentration camps outside of Norway. 28 of these survived World War Two.-Deportation:The deportation schedule for the major transports was:...

 with the transport ship D/S Gotenland from Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 to Stettin, from which she was sent by train to Auschwitz, where she was murdered the day she arrived, on March 3, 1943. She was 13 years old.

Cissi Klein became famous in her home town of Trondheim in the mid-1990s, when the city decided to appoint one of its 72 residents who were deported as a symbol for the persecution during the war. In 1995, the street where she lived was named Cissi Kleins gate (at 63.429574°N 10.38708°W), and a statue of her made by Tore Bjørn Skjølsvik and Tone Ekwas was unveiled in the park nearby in 1997. School children from her school visit this site on October 6 every year to lay down flowers in her memory. The composer Ståle Kleiberg

Ståle Kleiberg

Ståle Kleiberg is a contemporary classical composer and musicologist from Norway. -Biography:Kleiberg was born in Stavanger in 1958. He graduated from the University of Oslo with a degree in musicology and later from the Norwegian Academy of Music with a diploma degree in composition. In addition...

has written a musical piece in her memory.