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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 ...
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 Arnold about the escape of Danish Jews to Sweden during World War II. [30] Number the Stars (1989) a work of historical fiction by Lois ...
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 Elsinore Sewing Club was one of the many successful Danish rescue operations and underground groups which took place during World War II. The Elsinore Sewing Club was amongst other underground groups which participated in the Jewish evacuation including Mogens Staffeldt's bookshop, The Rockefeller Institute, The Lyngby Group and the Danish ...
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.
Memorial stone for the Danish resistance group Hvidstengruppen The Whitestone Group ( Danish : Hvidstengruppen ) was a Danish resistance group during World War II named after the Hvidsten Inn , between Randers and Mariager in Jutland , where it was formed.
Aage had been a teacher in Denmark, but by 1940 he was in Gävle, Sweden, where he taught at a high school. After Denmark came to an understanding with Nazi Germany, without going to war, Aage returned to his family and their house in a town outside of Copenhagen. [4] At some point, Aage was a teacher at the Lyngby State School [1] and a pastor ...
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.