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  2. Rescue of the Danish Jews - Wikipedia

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    The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark 2003 documentary about the escape of Danish Jews to Sweden during World War II; Across the Waters, 2016 film based on the true story of Niels Børge Lund Ferdinandsen, who rescued the Danish Jews during World War II; Books. A Night of Watching (1967) a work of historical fiction by Elliot ...

  3. Aage and Gerda Bertelsen - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Fanny Arnskov - Wikipedia

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    Fanny Arnskov (born 17 April 1889) was a Danish woman who helped Jews escape deportation by Nazis during World War II (1939–1945). She was a leader of the Women's League for Peace and Freedom. She was a leader of the Women's League for Peace and Freedom.

  5. 1943 in Denmark - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, he served as an attaché for Nazi Germany in occupied Denmark. He tipped off the Danes about the Germans' intended deportation of the Jewish population in 1943 and arranged for their reception in Sweden. Danish resistance groups subsequently rescued 95% of Denmark's Jewish population.

  7. Helsingør - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, Helsingør was among the most important transport points for the rescue of Denmark's Jewish population during the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler had ordered that all Danish Jews were to be arrested and deported to the concentration camps on Rosh HaShanah , the Jewish New Year, which fell on 2 October 1943.

  8. Folke Bernadotte - Wikipedia

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    Folke Bernadotte was born in Stockholm into the House of Bernadotte, the Swedish royal family.His father, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of Gotland), was the second son of King Oscar II of Sweden; his mother, Ebba Munck af Fulkila, had been a lady in waiting to Victoria of Baden, the wife of Crown Prince Gustaf.

  9. Denmark–Israel relations - Wikipedia

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    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 ...