Newth was born and raised in Norway where, as a young girl, she remembers the occupation of her country by Nazi Germany. Newth recounted to AAYA: "Although very young when Norway was liberated after five years of terror in 1945, I have stark memories of the sense of danger and protective black curtains, later understood as fear of traitors and Nazi cruelty and the sudden arrest of someone close or friendly. It happened all the time. Both my parents were strongly opposed to and resisted the occupiers and Hitler's vile ideology. Both were profiled journalists, non-fiction writers and translators. My clearest memory of the liberation is my mother gleefully throwing the black curtains out of the window while I felt a surge of anxiety. But it was over. The monster was crushed. Still, the effects of war lasted for more than a decade and daily life in poverty stricken post-war Norway was bleak indeed. I still can recall my first joyous encounter with an orange; the sharp sweet taste and exotic bitter smell, lingering long after my fingers were no longer sticky. But the hatred for Germans and their Norwegian collaborators that had caused the nation so much pain lasted longer, well into the sixties.
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