It wasn’t until 2005 that Irene Levin Berman forced her­self to exam­ine what it meant to her to be a Holo­caust sur­vivor. Even after so many years, she strong­ly iden­ti­fied as a Jew and a Nor­we­gian, as well as a Unit­ed States cit­i­zen, but not hav­ing been in a ghet­to or camp, she didn’t feel ​“wor­thy” of the label ​“sur­vivor.” In ​“We Are Going To Pick Pota­toes”: Nor­way and The Holo­caust, The Untold Sto­ry, she describes what hap­pened to the Jews of Nor­way dur­ing the Holo­caust, focus­ing main­ly on her par­tic­u­lar fam­i­ly; this is as much an auto­bi­og­ra­phy as an account of flight and reset­tle­ment in hos­pitable Swe­den. A child of four when she was told ​“We are going to pick pota­toes,” she and her fam­i­ly embarked on a tor­tu­ous­ly dan­ger­ous jour­ney across the Alps to reach neu­tral Swe­den, just miss­ing the Gestapo roundup of Novem­ber 26th for the pur­pose of mass arrests. It was 1942, and the Nor­we­gian Jews who remained in Nor­way did not real­ize the dan­ger they were in. Inter­est­ing­ly, in one chap­ter, Berman tries to excuse the Nor­we­gian police and Nor­way for not emu­lat­ing the excel­lent record of Den­mark, say­ing that the Jews had been in Den­mark for cen­turies, which was not the case in Nor­way (to which she and her fam­i­ly returned after the war). Although this is pri­mar­i­ly an account of the fate of the author’s extend­ed fam­i­ly dur­ing the Holo­caust, it is nev­er­the­less an impor­tant addi­tion to the library of sur­vivor tes­ti­mo­ny since not much is known about Nor­we­gian Jews dur­ing this period.