Margrete Aamot Øverland

Margrete Aamot Øverland (11 February 1913 – 20 November 1978) was a Norwegian resistance member during the Second World War, and later editor of the Riksmål newspaper Frisprog.

A journalist in the social democrat newspaper Den 1ste Mai, she met her future husband Arnulf Øverland for the first time in 1934.

The couple moved-in together in the summer of 1940, shortly after the German invasion of Norway (Operation Weserübung).

[1] Based in their Oslo home, they distributed Øverland's anti-fascist poetry, which was deemed illegal by the occupiers.

Aamot was sent to Grini concentration camp and later Ravensbrück.