Falstad: The Camp and Falstad Forest
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The camp at Ekne, where about 360 Soviet prisoners were held; over 200 people were executed in the forest nearby.
The Falstad camp in the village of Ekne operated from the autumn of 1941 until the liberation in May 1945; more than 4,200 prisoners from 15–20 countries passed through it. Besides Norwegian political prisoners, the largest foreign groups were Soviet prisoners of war and Yugoslavs: according to the Centre for Holocaust Studies in Oslo, about 360 Soviet prisoners were held here, and about 100 of them were shot. In Falstad Forest, a kilometre to the south, over 200 people were executed — about 43 Norwegians, 74 Yugoslavs and 100 Soviet prisoners; the overall estimate of 200–300 remains imprecise, because in the spring of 1945 the Nazis exhumed some of the bodies and sank them in the fjord. Since August 2000 the former main building has housed the Falstad Centre, a national museum that keeps a register of Soviet citizens buried in Norway.
Falstadvegen 59, NO-7624 Ekne, Levanger municipality. The memorial in Falstad Forest is about 1 km south of the museum, with a car park beside it; access is free all year round (Falstadsenteret website and trondelag.com, checked 01.10.2026). In August 2026 the local press wrote about the neglected state of the memorial: algae on the monument, overgrown graves, barely legible plaques (innherred.no, 18.08.2026).