På Kapellveien 15A boede familien Feldman: Jakob, Rakel Sonja og Herman.
Jakob og Rakel Sonja, begge født i Ukraine i1891, blev dræbt i Trøgstad d. 27. oktober 1942 under flugten til det neutrale Sverige.
Herman født 1918 blev deporteret til Auschwitz hvor han blev henrettet i 1942.
Fra norsk wikipedia kan man læse denne dramatiske historie om Feldmann sagen:
"Feldmannsaken er en mye diskutert norsk sak der to norske grenseloser (Håkon Løvestad, født 24. august 1918 i Trøgstad, og Peder Pedersen) myrdet det jødiske ekteparet Rachel og Jakob Feldmann og senket likene i et tjern. Mordene skjedde trolig 27. oktober 1942. Losene var hyret for å frakte ekteparet til sikkerhet i Sverige, men oppdaget at de bar på verdier. De drepte ekteparet og stjal 12 000 kroner eller tilsvarende to årslønner, og andre eiendeler. De ble frikjent i tingretten og lagmannsretten etter å ha innrømmet drapene.
Liket av Jakob Feldmann ble oppdaget i Skrikerudtjern i Trøgstad 22. mai 1943 og 30. mai fant man også liket av Rachel Feldmann. Saken ble raskt «henlagt til observasjon». Noen avhør ble gjennomført i vinteren 1945-1946, og vitner hevdet at det hadde vært kontakt mellom fru Feldmann og broren til en av grenselosene. Broren sa i avhør med lensmannen i Trøgstad at et jødisk ektepar hadde vært innom i det aktuelle tidsrommet i 1942, men han hevdet at dette kun var bekjente av Feldmanns. Sommeren 1946 ble saken igjen lagt til side og fornyet etterforskning ble ikke satt i gang før avisene tok opp saken i januar 1947.
En jødisk bekjent av Feldmann hadde støtt på grenselosene i Sverige og mente at en av disse benyttet gulluret til Jakob Feldmann. Da den nevnte broren igjen ble avhørt, innrømmet han til slutt at ekteparet som hadde kommet til gården i oktober 1942 faktisk var Feldmanns. Grenselosene ble konfrontert med mistankene i januar 1947. Begge innrømmet forholdet og de ble satt i varetekt 31. januar og 1. februar 1947.
Losene vedsto seg drapene, men argumenterte med at flukttraséen sto i fare for å bli kompromittert til tyskerne og at de hadde handlet i nødverge. Flere mektige Milorg-medlemmer vitnet i grenselosenes favør.
De ble frifunnet for drapene, men dømt for underslag av penger og et gullur paret hadde hatt på seg. Det var uklart om losene drepte paret for vinnings skyld eller for å sikre organisasjonen og flyktningruta. Frifinnelsen henger sammen med usikkerheten omkring dette.
Saken fikk stor oppmerksomhet, og fikk ny oppmerksomhet på 1980-tallet da Sigurd Senje ga ut dokumentarromanen Ekko fra Skriktjenn i 1982, som ble filmatisert i 1987 av Bente Erichsen med tittelen Over grensen. Saken har også vært inspirasjon for Espen Holms thriller Tilfellet Blumenfeld fra 2015.
Håkon Løvestads bror Karsten drepte 22. oktober 1942 politimannen Arne Hvam på toget til Halden da han skulle lose flyktninger, blant annet Feldmann-parets sønn Hermann, over grensen. Hermann ble tatt til fange etter at han rømte fra Halden-toget i fart, han ble deportert og henrettet 20. august 1943. Karsten Løvestad ble henrettet på Trandum 3. september 1943.
Kilde: no.wikipedia.org
The young Herman
English:
At the Kapellveien road the Feldmann family lived: Jakob, Rakel Sonja and their adopted son Herman. Jakob and Rakel Sonja, both born in Ukraine in 1891 were killed in 1942 during their escape towards the neutral Sweden.
Herman was killed in Auschwitz in 1943.
More details about the killing of Jakob and Sonja here:
"The Feldmann case (Norwegian: Feldmannsaken) was a controversial criminal case in Norway in which two border guides admitted to killing an elderly Jewish couple during their escape from the Holocaust in Norway, and stealing their money. A jury acquitted the two of culpability for the killing, accepting their explanation that the couple endangered not just the mission but the viability of the escape route to Sweden.
On October 22, 1942, a train on the Østfold Line bound for Halden included ten refugees bound for Sweden, of whom nine were Jewish. Also traveling were two border guides, Karsten Løvestad and Harry Pedersen, both of whom may have been wanted by the occupying authorities. Between Skjeberg and Døle stations (both are now closed for passenger traffic), Norwegian police came through the cars inspecting identification cards. Hermann Feldmann, Willy Schermann and Karsten Løvestad (two of the Jewish refugees, and one of the guides) were asked by Arne Hvam, a committed Norwegian Nazi police man, to step outside. Accounts differ as to whether Hvam at that point had asked the conductor to notify the police in Halden that he had apprehended refugees.
However, Løvestad, who was carrying a forged passport, shot Hvam on the train. The three then jumped off the speeding train near Besseberg. Feldmann broke an arm in the fall, and Schermann sustained some gashes. The three tried for some time to evade capture, but were eventually caught in one of the largest police campaigns in the history of the war. Feldmann, Schermann and the other Jewish refugees were murdered in Auschwitz in August 1943; Karsten Løvestad was also shot in September 1943 after appearing before a tribunal without the benefit of a defense.
The Nazi authorities made propaganda out of this incident. Newspaper headlines made it out to be a cold-blooded murder of a faithful public servant at the hands of the Jews. Hvam's funeral was attended by the top echelon of both the German and Norwegian Nazi authorities. Well-plated editorials called for decisive action against Jews.
Rakel and Jacob Feldmann.
Hermann Feldmann's foster parents were Rakel and Jacob Feldmann. Unnerved by the publicity this incident had caused, they had decided to make their own break for the Swedish border. They showed up at the farm of the Løvestad family in Trøgstad on October 23, asking for refuge and help to find their way across the border. As the area was still subject to search and surveillance by police forces, the Løvestad family was under significant pressure and risk of discovery.
The couple stayed hidden in the area for a few days, until October 27 when two border guides—Peder Pedersen and Håkon Løvestad—offered to take them across the border. The couple borrowed clothing and footwear for a two-day hike. But when the company of four arrived at Skrikerudtjernet, the guides clubbed the Jewish couple to death, stole their money, and sunk the bodies in the lake with weights.
Løvestad fled to Sweden wearing Feldmann's gold watch, and Pedersen returned to his home after this and resumed guiding refugees across the border, including several Jews.
Trial and verdict:
The Feldmanns' bodies eventually floated to the surface and were discovered, and investigations led to the prosecution of Peder Pedersen and Håkon Løvestad. The matter came to trial in 1947. Although the two accused did not deny that they had killed the couple and taken their money, they claimed they had no real choice in the matter: the Feldmanns were old, overweight, and incapable of the long walk to the border. They were bound to be discovered where they were, and their arrest and detention would bring down the underground railroad, endangering many more lives than theirs.
The two were acquitted of killing the couple but were convicted for embezzling their money, which amounted to NOK 12,000; and their possessions.
During the debate surrounding the verdict, Oskar Hasselknippe, the editor of Verdens Gang, a leading Norwegian newspaper, challenged Leo Eitinger's criticism of the verdict, pointing out that in war, difficult decisions sometimes have to be made. He implied that Eitinger would not understand this, asking Eitinger where he had been during the war. To which Eitinger replied: "In Auschwitz!"
Source: wikipedia.org