A light in the Northern Sea : Denmark's incredible rescue of their Jewish citizens during WWII
Publication Information
New York, NY: Citadel Press, 2025.
Physical Description
viii, 249 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary
"The gripping, remarkably little-known true story of how the people of Denmark banded together during WWII to rescue nearly all of their Jewish citizens from Nazi persecution by ferrying them just a few at a time to sanctuary in Sweden."--Provided by publisher.
Contents
- Part 1: Occupation. April 9, 1940
- Ordinary Danes
- The Jews of Denmark
- Christian X goes for a ride
- Movement
- 1943
- Bohr
- August 1943
- Holger Danske 1
- Jorgen and Elsebet
- State of emergency
- Duckwitz
- Time to act
- The Germans move against the Jews
- Part 2: Exodus. Finding a way out
- Bispebjerg
- Gerda III
- Bohr makes it to Scotland
- Gestapo Juhl, Gillelje, and the Elsinore Sewing Club
- Sweden: a light in the northern sea
- Theresienstadt
- Part 3: Resistance. Holger Danske 2
- First assignment
- Setbacks
- The first death
- Vengeance: first attempt
- New territory
- Menace of the Peter Group
- The demise of Holger Danske 2
- Refugees in Sweden
- Resistance continues
- Vestre Faengsel
- Strike
- Froslev
- The police are arrested
- The flame
- Aarhus
- Porta Westfalica
- Henny and Mix
- Negotaitions
- Shellhus in Copenhagen
- The white buses
- Porta Westfalica for a last time
- Theresienstadt once again.