Beisfjord is a village approx. 15 km (10 miles) from the town of Narvik, Norway. Narvik ( Northern Sami: Narviika) is a town and municipality in the county of Nordland, Norway Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional It has about 800 inhabitants. The village is situated by Beisfjorden an arm of Ofotfjorden, and is served by Beisfjord Bridge. Ofotfjord ( Norwegian: Ofotfjorden, the suffix -en means " the " an inlet of the Norwegian sea, is Norway's 12th Beisfjord Bridge (Beisfjordbrua is a bridge that crosses Beisfjorden near (almost inside the town of Narvik in Nordland county in Norway.
Beisfjord was the location of one of the most notorious concentration camps during World War II in Norway. Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people commonly in large groups without trial World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In this camp for Russian and Yugoslav prisoners of war 1,500 died during the war, 300 in one night from a typhoid epidemic. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending See also Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia ( Serbo-Croatian Typhoid fever, also known as enteric fever, bilious fever, Yellow Jack or commonly just typhoid, is an illness caused by the Bacterium