Norway has apologised for the arrest and deportation of Jews during the second world war.

The prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, said it was time the nation acknowledged that politicians and other Norwegians took part and expressed "our deep regrets that this could have happened on Norwegian soil".

During the war, 772 Norwegian Jews and Jewish refugees were deported to Germany, of whom only 34 survived.

Stoltenberg spoke on Friday at a ceremony in Oslo marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was also attended by the last surviving Jew of a group of 532 who were deported from Norway in 1942.

Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany in April 1940. The occupation lasted five years.