30/05/2024
The Museo has a rather unusual artifact on display in the Militaria section.
It's a small silver filigree bon bon dish, so why? I hear you ask.
The small dish belonged to a famous Norwegian-Swedish actress, a beautiful, talented and very brave lady, Sonja Wigert.
During WW2 she was recruited to spy for the Swedish intelligence who were concerned that they would invaded by
the N***s.
She was sent to Norway to spy on high ranking German officers including Josef Terboven, the Riechskommissar of occupied Norway.
She became a double agent, putting herself in grave danger if she had been discovered and she became very close to Terboven in an effort to obtain vital information.
She was also passing information to other allied intelligence services.
Unfortunately she was seen as a N**i collaborator by many Swedish and Norwegian people.
She died in 1980 at the age of 66, broken hearted because of the accusations against her.
She had moved to live with relatives in Alfas del Pi ,Alicante Province on the Colonia Escandinavia urbanisation,where she had many friends.
We moved to Alfas del Pi some years after her death, living very close to the house where she had lived.
Our neighbours were an elderly Norwegian couple who had been close friends of hers ,they had also been part of the Norwegian Resistance.
I spent many hours talking to them ,and learnt so many interesting facts about Sonja and life during N**i occupation.
It was at this time the Silver dish and other artefacts came into my possession, I promised that I would take care of them and try to tell the true story about Sonja.
The dish is inscribed with Sonja's name and it was presented to her in Berlin during the war.
Eventually, in 2005 ,25 years after her death the Swedish Intelligence Agency opened their files on Sonja and she was posthumously vindicated.
The photographs shown are original photographs taken during the N**i occupation of Norway.
