WAR

Even though Ingeborg's clear profile had earned her a listing on the Norwegian nazists' "death list", she was not immediately arrested after the German attack. Her income was slashed when the nazi administration stopped her artist's wage and banned publishing her work. She stayed alive by teaching friends' children litterature, but her main work was illegal: she funded and ran what was for a period of time the most widely distributed illegal Norwegian newspaper, "Jøssingposten".

Of course this was an enormous amount of work, in spite of great technical difficulties, among them lack of paper:

"Old, honest workers developed their paper theft skills. (...) yet I carried paper until I had big blisters on my hips."

(From "Gnister i mørket" , IRH autobiography Vol II)

Jøssingposten volunteers risked their lives at work.
This drawing by Per Teigen could obviously not be published until the end of the war. Ingeborg center.
A collaborator writes:
"When I came home, I normally went to Alfhild's flat to type print originals. Afterwards we started the printing process. Ingeborg ran the machine, and I sat on the floor folding paper. We were happy for any help we got. (...) The living room was a hive of activity. (...) When the copies were finished, we put them in a bathtube in the kitchen. If Gestapo (the secret police) came, we would fill the tube with water and put dirty clothes on the top (...) "Men don't like touching laundry," Ingeborg said.
The only way to safely dispose of misprints and originals was by burning them.
"Even on the warmest of days smoke was constantly coming from our chimney. It is a miracle nobody asked why."

(From Report from Jøssingposten work (upublished))

In addition to "Jøssingposten", Ingeborg was involved in nearly every kind of illegal resistance activity. It could not last...

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