Kjesäter

Kjesäter is a manor in the municipality of Vingåker in the county of Södermanland in Sweden that now (2008) serves as a folk high school and hostel.

These included officials of the legitimate Norwegian government, political activists, especially communists, and some Jews who feared persecution.

After Öreryd in Småland proved inadequate, on June 15, 1942, Kjesäter was designated as the main assembly and transit point for refugees who had fled the Nazi German occupation of Norway by crossing the border into Sweden.

These refugees included political activists, members of the resistance, and Jews fleeing deportation to extermination camps.

[3][4] The center in Kjesäter would serve as the main transit point for refugees from Norway throughout the war.