 Complete the following phrase:  Holman was born in Drammen in Buskerud County, Norway. He was the only child of Hans and Kirsten Halvorsen Guttormsen. His father was a successful businessman, and had a large estate called Holmen at nearby Konnerud, where he farmed minks, a weasel yielding precious fur. The familys affluence meant that Holman enjoyed a relatively comfortable upbringinga contrast to the economic hardship endured by most Norwegians at that time. An illustrative curiosity is the fact that Holmans mother, Kirsten Halvorsen, was the first woman in the city to have a drivers licence. Holman came from a family of profoundly religious Christians, and it possibly imbued him with an acute spiritual awareness. Holman displayed early on that he was fitted with a powerful intellect and an inquisitive mind; he took a deep interest in music, but also pursued studies in mathematics, physics and chemistry. Holman was only 15 years old when Hitlers troops 