Ester Margit Bergenhammer (née Jensen)

Esther Bergenhammer was employed as a civilian in the Royal Norwegian Air Force during the Second World War from 1944-1945.

Esther Margit Jensen was born in Copenhagen on 10 March 1917, to farmer Niels Peter Jensen and Hansine Mariane Jensen (née Petersen).^[1] Her mother died in 1919, when she was only nearly two years old.^[2]

She married Jørgen Bergenhammer in Copenhagen on 3 March 1938.^[3] In April that year, the couple emigrated to Canada via United Kingdom.^[4] Her husband, who had been married before, had moved to Canada before, in 1929, with his former wife and earned his living as a farmer.^[5]

Esther Bergenhammer was employed as a civilian (stenographer) in the Royal Norwegian Air Force in Canada from 5 June 1944. She worked there at least until the end of February 1945, when the Norwegian training activities moved to the United Kingdom.^[6] She lived in Toronto at the time.^[7]

Bergenhammer did not move to United Kingdom with the Norwegian Air Force in the spring of 1945. She travelled from Canada to the United States on 3 May 1945. Her destination was the Danish Consulate in New York.^[8] She returned to Denmark after the war, where she died in 2002.

Endnotes

[1] DNA: Parish register, Helligånds sogn.

[2] DNA: Parish register, Ballerup sogn.

[3] Copenhagen Municipal Archive: Giftefoged Duplikat af ægteskabsbog, nr 791.

[4] Ancestry: UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960.

[5] Ancestry: UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960.

[6] NNA: Forsvaret, Flyvåpnenes treningsleir 1940-1945, V/L0017: Regnskaper.

[7] Ancestry: Forsvaret, Flyvåpnenes treningsleir 1940-1945, V/L0002: General File., 1940-1945.

[8] Ancestry: U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960.