Rescue of the Danish Jews

The Danish resistance movement, with the assistance of many Danish citizens, managed to evacuate 7,500 of Denmark's 8,000 Jews, plus 686 non-Jewish spouses, by sea to nearby neutral Sweden during the Second World War.^[1] The agency and initiative of the Danish Jews individually and as a community was also a deciding factor in the success of this operation.^[2] Many efforts to save the Danish Jews from arrest and deportation began before it was officially ordered by the German leader Adolf Hitler; on September 28, 1943, German diplomat Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz leaked the plans to the Danish government.

This rescue is considered one of the largest actions of collective resistance to aggression in the countries occupied by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. As a result of the rescue, and of the following Danish intercession on behalf of the 464 Danish Jews who were captured and deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 99% of Denmark's Jewish population survived the Holocaust.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Goldberger 1987, pp. xx, 2.
^ Arnheim, Arthur (2015). Truet minoritet søger beskyttelse - Jødernes historie I Danmark 1619-2001 [Threatened Monority Seeks Protection - History of the Jews in Denmark] (in Danish) (1st ed.). Denmark: Syddansk Universitetsforlag. ISBN 978-87-7674-815-9.

[FOOTNOTEGoldberger1987xx,_2-1] Goldberger 1987, pp. xx, 2.

[2] Arnheim, Arthur (2015). Truet minoritet søger beskyttelse - Jødernes historie I Danmark 1619-2001 [Threatened Monority Seeks Protection - History of the Jews in Denmark] (in Danish) (1st ed.). Denmark: Syddansk Universitetsforlag. ISBN 978-87-7674-815-9.

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