{"id":8953,"date":"2022-03-18T15:21:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T15:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/?post_type=artikler&p=8953"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:17:31","slug":"regine-juhls-was-a-refugee-who-was-passionately-interested-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"artikler","link":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/artikkel\/regine-juhls-was-a-refugee-who-was-passionately-interested-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Regine Juhls was a refugee who was passionately interested in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\tRegine Juhls came to Finnmark as a 19-year-old in 1958. Prior to that, she was a child refugee in West Germany during World War II.\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n

She visited the refugee camps on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border a number of times in the eighties together with her husband. The couple took medicines and equipment with them and returned home with elephants and carpets that they sold to raise income for the refugee cause. The strong impressions contributed to a lifetime of engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regine Juhls, f\u00f8dt Neumann i 1939 i \u00d8st-Preussen. Kulturpersonlighet, kunstner og grunnlegger av Finnmarks f\u00f8rste s\u00f8lvsmie, Juhls i Kautokeino., sammen med sin n\u00e5 avd\u00f8de ektemann, den danske kunstneren og kulturprofilen Frank Juhls (1932-2020). I 2009 ble ekteparet tildelt Finnmark fylkes kulturpris \u00a9 Siri Wolland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The devilry had taken over<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“We were thrilled; it was a wonderful country with nice people and very few problems. You can’t imagine what it was like then, before all the geopolitical troubles started. We began to see the changes as early as our second visit. “That was when the devilry took over,” she explained. “I was a refugee myself, so it was logical that I was interested in learning how women and children were doing in Afghanistan”, Regine said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the yuppie era, people didn’t seem to care<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It was difficult to get people interested or involved in Afghanistan in the eighties. In the eighties, the Norwegian people did not want to hear about distress in foreign countries, far away. That’s why we discovered that we wanted to build an oriental space here, to catch people’s attention and give them a beautiful experience,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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