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During the first days of the rescue action, Jews moved into the many fishing harbors on the Danish coast to await passage, but officers of the Gestapo became suspicious of activity around harbors (and on the night of October 6, about 80 Jews were caught hiding in the loft of the church at Gilleleje, their hiding place having been betrayed by a ...
Set in Denmark during September 27 – October 3, 1943, Miracle at Midnight is a dramatization of the true story of the Danish rescue of Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps. Doctor Karl ( Sam Waterston ) and Doris ( Mia Farrow ) Koster are a Christian couple living in Copenhagen with their two children, 18-year-old Henrik ( Justin ...
Aage, a pacifist, [4] and Gerda were determined to help the Danish Jews, even though it was illegal with the Nazi Germans. They started by taking in two Jewish children. [1] Aage arranged for sixty people to hide in a school. It was a happy relief for Aage to have a way to oppose the Nazi Germans and save Jews without engaging in warfare. [7]
Back in Denmark on 29 September, Duckwitz contacted the Danish Social Democrat Hans Hedtoft and notified him of the intended deportation. Hedtoft warned the head of the Jewish community, C. B. Henriques, and the acting chief rabbi, Marcus Melchior, who spread the warning. Sympathetic Danes in all walks of life organized a mass escape of over ...
In October, 1943, in German-occupied Denmark, the Nazis decide to deport all Danish Jews to extermination camps. However, the Danish people decide to prevent this. Lillian Stein, a Jewish ballet teacher, learns of the Nazi plan; but her father, a violin dealer, refuses to leave.
Because of the rescue of all Danish Jews during World War II, the Yad Vashem declared the collective Danish resistance as Righteous Among the Nations. [6] In May 2005, Denmark apologized for sending Jews to Nazi concentration camps. During the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, there were protests in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense. In Copenhagen, the ...
29 August – The Danish government resigns, leading to direct administration of Denmark by German authority. [ 3 ] 28 September – Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz , a German diplomat, after secretly making sure Sweden would receive Jewish refugees, leaks word of the German plans for the arrest and deportation of the some 8,000 Danish Jews to Hans ...
The L-groups (Danish: L-gruppe) was a resistance group tasked with assassination of Danish collaborators and German forces occupying Denmark during the Second World War.The precursor to the group was established in 1940, but it was most active from 1944 to the end of the war.