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Countrymen: How Denmark´s Jews Escaped the Nazis
Bo Lidegaard
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Description for Countrymen: How Denmark´s Jews Escaped the Nazis
Paperback. .
The rescue of the Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in October 1943 is a unique exception to the tragic history of the Holocaust. Over fourteen harrowing days, as they were helped, hidden and protected by ordinary people who spontaneously rushed to save their fellow citizens, an incredible 7,742 out of 8,200 Jewish refugees were smuggled out all along the coast - on ships, schooners, fishing boats, anything that floated - to Sweden.
Now, for the first time, Bo Lidegaard brings together decades of research and new evidence, including unpublished diaries and documents of families forced to run for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782391487
SKU
V9781782391487
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-13
About Bo Lidegaard
Bo Lidegaard is a Danish historian, author and editor-in-chief of the daily broadsheet newspaper Politiken. He has been awarded some of the highest of Denmark's national honours for his writings.
Reviews for Countrymen: How Denmark´s Jews Escaped the Nazis
The rescue of the Danish Jews is surely one of the most extraordinary - and genuinely moving - stories of the last century... A tremendously stirring book
Dominic Sandbrook
Sunday Times
Magisterial... The story Lidegaard tells of how Danes, from the top bureaucrats, Church leaders and police officials down to the humblest fishermen, helped the Jews escape ... Read more
Dominic Sandbrook
Sunday Times
Magisterial... The story Lidegaard tells of how Danes, from the top bureaucrats, Church leaders and police officials down to the humblest fishermen, helped the Jews escape ... Read more