- Headline
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Danish Jews Seek Refuge in Sweden
- Publication Date
- Friday, October 1, 1943
- Historical Event
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Danes Help Jews Escape to Neutral Sweden
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- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- Stockholm—(UP)—Three hundred panic-stricken Jews escaped the gestapo in Nazi - dominated Denmark today by fleeing across the narrow sound in rowboats and other small craft and landing at Landskrona and Halsingborg, Sweden.
The refugees said a general roundup of Jews reportedly ordered in Denmark by Hitler last May actually got under way Thursday night when new contingents of gestapo agents and blackshirts arrived to reinforce Nazi secret police. - History Unfolded Contributor
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Sylvia S.
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Bibliography
Goldbeger, Leo, ed. The Rescue of the Danish Jews: Moral Courage Under Stress. New York: New York University Press, 1987.
Haestrup, Jorgen. Secret Alliance: A Study of the Danish Resistance Movement. New York: New York University Press, 1977.
Hong, Nathaniel. Sparks of Resistance: The Illegal Press in German-Occupied Denmark, April 1940–August 1943. Odense: Odense University Press, 1996.
Levine, Ellen. Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews. New York: Scholastic, 2001.
Loeffler, Martha, Knud Dyby, and John Mark Nielsen. Boats in the Night: Knud Dyby’s Involvement in the Rescue of the Danish Jews and the Danish Resistance. Blair, NE: Lur Publications, Danish Immigrant Archive, Dana College, 2000.
Yahil, Leni. The Rescue of Danish Jewry. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1969.
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