Post-war Years
Immediately after the war ended in 1945, she married Bjørn Heger, a Norwegian medical student released from a prison in Berlin, at the seaman's church in Hamburg. She earned a degree in social work and pursued a career helping female inmates in Norwegian prisons. For several years she also led the organisation Kriminalomsorg i frihet (outside-prison organised care for individuals sentenced for crimes). In 1985, both Wanda and Bjørn Heger were awarded the Order of St. Olav for their humanitarian war-time efforts.
She is now retired and continues to be active in education about the war years, serving on the board of the White Buses Foundation. She has six children; among them is Anders Heger.
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