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  2. Rescue of the Danish Jews - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  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. Miracle at Midnight - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Erik Husfeldt - Wikipedia

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    Husfeldt rescued Danish Jews by transporting them across the Øresund. He managed the rescue operations from his Snekkersten summer home. [1] [2] He coordinated activities between the Danish Freedom Council and the military at that time. [1] He gave an interview in Sweden to make it appear as if it was his permanent residence. [2]

  6. Fanny Arnskov - Wikipedia

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    Rescue and relief efforts in Denmark during the Holocaust 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.

  7. Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Leo Goldberger - Wikipedia

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    He was the story consultant on the feature film A Day in October (1992) about the rescue of the Danish Jews. [17] Honors ... Free Press, 1982 (end rev. ed, 1993)