[3] In September, her father was ordered to report to the Gestapo office, where he was questioned and later sent to Auschwitz.

[3] Later that year, the Nazis were going to arrest the other Jews in Oslo, however, Samuel-Cahn's family were moved by members of the underground, Ingebjørg Sletten-Fosstvedt and Sigrid Helliesen Lund, to safety and later to a refugee camp in neutral Sweden.

[2] In order to cross the border, Samuel-Cahn and the rest of her family had to hide in trucks used to transport potatoes.

[2] In 1946, Samuel-Cahn, her mother, and brothers moved to Mandatory Palestine (part of which later became Israel).

[7] She was also a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1989,[8] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.