Countrymen

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Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1782391460
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Book Synopsis Countrymen by : Bo Lidegaard

Download or read book Countrymen written by Bo Lidegaard and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Now, for the first time, Bo Lidegaard brings together decades of research and new evidence, including unpublished diaries and documents of families forced to run for safety and of those who courageously came to their aid, to tell this story of ordinary glory, of simple courage and moral fortitude that shines out in the midst of the terrible history of the twentieth century and demonstrates how it was possible for a small and fragile democracy to stand against the Third Reich.

The Viking Jews

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Publisher : Shengold Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Viking Jews by : Ib Nathan Bamberger

Download or read book The Viking Jews written by Ib Nathan Bamberger and published by Shengold Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Jews in Denmark, beginning with the settlement of the first Sephardic Jews invited from Holland in 1622. Denmark's Jews enjoyed privileges, and were never forced to live in a ghetto. An attempt by the Lutheran Church to convert them in 1728 was abandoned. A literary attack in 1813, when Thomas Thaarus translated German writer Friedrich Buchholz's antisemitic pamphlet "Moses og Jesus, " degenerated into an attack on Jewish civil and political rights. The Danish tolerant attitude remained unchanged, however, and full emancipation was granted by King Frederick IV in 1814, while the "More Judaico" oath was abrogated only in 1843. The German occupation of Denmark in 1940 did not affect the Jews until martial law was introduced in August 1943, which was followed by the deportation of 464 Jews to Theresienstadt. Most of the Danish Jews escaped to Sweden.

Jews and Christians in Denmark

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004304371
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Jews and Christians in Denmark by : Martin Schwarz Lausten

Download or read book Jews and Christians in Denmark written by Martin Schwarz Lausten and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jews and Christians in Denmark Martin Schwarz Lausten investigates how the antijudaistic attitudes in Church and society changed starting around 1100. While some anti-Semitic movements arose later, 7,000 Danish Jews were able to escape to Sweden with Christian assistance during the German occupation.

A Danish Jew in West Africa

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Publisher : Sub-Saharan Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9988550669
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Book Synopsis A Danish Jew in West Africa by : Winsnes, Selena Axelrod

Download or read book A Danish Jew in West Africa written by Winsnes, Selena Axelrod and published by Sub-Saharan Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wulff's life history is of considerable interest in itself. In her biographical essay (Part I) Selena Axelrod Winsnes portrays him as a 'marginal man': being a Jew in Denmark at the beginning of the 19th century was to some extent an uphill struggle for those who sought public recognition, and Wulff did not escape discrimination in his administrative career at Christiansborg either, although special circumstances allowed him to hold important positions, and yet, only for the short term. Paradoxically, on his arrival to the Gold Coast Wulff - as a Jew - was placed in a middle position in the racial hierarchy dominating the mind-set of his superiors in Copenhagen ñ between Africans and Europeans. In many respects he shared the fate of Euro-Africans, straddling two worlds and being 'sealed off' from the top echelons of the European establishments on the Coast. This book comprises two parts. The first is a biographical presentation of Wulff Joseph Wulff , a Danish Jew. It is an essay concerning the last six years of his life, spent on the Gold Coast of West Africa, based on letters he wrote to his family in Denmark. Those letters were published in 1917 as Da Guinea var Dansk [When Guinea was Danish], by Carl Behrens, a member of his family in Denmark. The second part of the book is an edited translation of the letters from Danish into English.

Accounting for Genocide

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Accounting for Genocide by : Helen Fein

Download or read book Accounting for Genocide written by Helen Fein and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as an "application of historical sociology, not a work of conventional history", the work assesses why the destruction of the Jews was not uniformly effective throughout Europe. Three factors determined Nazi success - the extent of German control, the activity of national resistance movements, and the extent of antisemitism in the prewar period. Pt. 1 (p. 3-194) discusses the will of the Germans to annihilate the Jews, and its origins; the role of the Allies, the European neutrals, and the Church in failing to prevent the Holocaust; and conditions in the occupied countries. Pt. 2 deals mainly with the responses of the Jews.

The Jew of Denmark

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jew of Denmark by : Meïr Goldschmidt

Download or read book The Jew of Denmark written by Meïr Goldschmidt and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Denmark and the Holocaust

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
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Book Synopsis Denmark and the Holocaust by : Mette Bastholm Jensen

Download or read book Denmark and the Holocaust written by Mette Bastholm Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Countrymen

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385350163
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis Countrymen by : Bo Lidegaard

Download or read book Countrymen written by Bo Lidegaard and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the dark, ghastly history of World War II, the literally extraordinary story, never before fully researched by a historian, of how the Danish people banded together to save their fellow Jews from the Nazis—told through the remarkable unpublished diaries and documents of families forced to run for safety, leaving their homes and possessions behind, and of those who courageously came to their aid. In 1943, with its king and administration weakened but intact during the Nazi occupation, Denmark did something that no other country in Western Europe even attempted. Anticipating that the German occupying powers would soon issue the long-feared order to round up the entire population of Jews for deportation to concentration camps, the Danish people stood up in defiance and resisted. The king, politicians, and ordinary civilians were united in their response—these threatened people were not simply Jews but fellow Danes who happened to be Jewish, and no one would help in rounding them up for confinement and deportation. While diplomats used their limited but very real power to maneuver and impede matters in both Copenhagen and Berlin, the warning that the crisis was at hand quickly spread through the Jewish community. 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. While the bare facts of this exodus have been known for decades, astonishingly no full history of it has been written. Unfolding on a day-to-day basis, Countrymen brings together accounts written by individuals and officials as events happened, offering a comprehensive overview that underlines occupied Denmark’s historical importance to Hitler as a prop for the model Nazi state and revealing the savage conflict among top Nazi brass for control of the country. This is a story of ordinary glory, of simple courage and moral fortitude that shines out in the midst of the terrible history of the twentieth century and demonstrates how it was possible for a small and fragile democracy to stand against the Third Reich.

In Denmark it Could Not Happen

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Publisher : Gefen Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis In Denmark it Could Not Happen by : Herbert Pundik

Download or read book In Denmark it Could Not Happen written by Herbert Pundik and published by Gefen Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about men and women who risked their lives to rescue their fellow countrymen. The Jewish community of Denmark was the only one in Nazi-Controlled Europe which survived WWII intact by escaping in small boats to neutral Sweden in 1943.

Darkness Over Denmark

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ISBN 13 : 9780823417551
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Darkness Over Denmark by : Ellen Levine

Download or read book Darkness Over Denmark written by Ellen Levine and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II.

The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429514867
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust by : Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini Fracapane

Download or read book The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust written by Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini Fracapane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, seen through the eyes of the Jewish victims from Denmark. "How was it in Theresienstadt?" Thus asked Johan Grün rhetorically when he, in July 1945, published a short text about his experiences. The successful flight of the majority of Danish Jewry in October 1943 is a well-known episode of the Holocaust, but the experience of the 470 men, women, and children that were deported to the ghetto has seldom been the object of scholarly interest. Providing an overview of the Judenaktion in Denmark and the subsequent deportations, the book sheds light on the fate of those who were arrested. Through a micro-historical analysis of everyday life, it describes various aspects of social and daily life in proximity to death. In doing so, the volume illuminates the diversity of individual situations and conveys the deportees’ perceptions and striving for survival and ‘normality’. Offering a multi-perspective and international approach that places the case of Denmark into the broader Jewish experience during the Holocaust, this book is invaluable for researchers of Jewish studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, and the history of modern Denmark.

Countrymen

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ISBN 13 : 9781782391456
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Countrymen by : Bo Lidegaard

Download or read book Countrymen written by Bo Lidegaard and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rescue of the Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in October 1943 is a unique exception to the tragic history of the Holocaust. Within a few weeks some 7,000 people managed to escape. What made this possible? This book tells the story of how during WWII the people of Denmark rallied to save their Jewish population from the Nazis.

Antisemitism in the North

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110632284
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Antisemitism in the North by : Jonathan Adams

Download or read book Antisemitism in the North written by Jonathan Adams and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is research on antisemitism even necessary in countries with a relatively small Jewish population? Absolutely, as this volume shows. Compared to other countries, research on antisemitism in the Nordic countries (Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) is marginalized at an institutional and staffing level, especially as far as antisemitism beyond German fascism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust is concerned. Furthermore, compared to scholarship on other prejudices and minority groups, issues concerning Jews and anti-Jewish stereotypes remain relatively underresearched in Scandinavia – even though antisemitic stereotypes have been present and flourishing in the North ever since the arrival of Christianity, and long before the arrival of the first Jewish communities. This volume aims to help bring the study of antisemitism to the fore, from the medieval period to the present day. Contributors from all the Nordic countries describe the status of as well as the challenges and desiderata for the study of antisemitism in their respective countries.

Rescuing the Danish Jews

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Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 076603321X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Book Synopsis Rescuing the Danish Jews by : Ann Byers

Download or read book Rescuing the Danish Jews written by Ann Byers and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II, including background on Denmark and the Holocaust, firsthand accounts from the many people involved, and how thousands of Jews were saved from the Nazis"--Provided by publisher.

Number the Stars

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Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780007395200
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (952 download)

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Book Synopsis Number the Stars by : Lois Lowry

Download or read book Number the Stars written by Lois Lowry and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal, newly reissued in the Essential Modern Classics range. "They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take them away. And we have been told that they may come tonight." It is 1943 and life in Copenhagen is becoming complicated for Annemarie. There are food shortages and curfews, and soldiers on every corner. But it is even worse for her Jewish best friend, Ellen, as the Nazis continue their brutal campaign. With Ellen's life in danger, Annemarie must summon all her courage to help stage a daring escape. Inspired by true events of the Second World War, this gripping novel brings the past vividly to life for today's readers.

An Introduction to Danish Culture

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078648652X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Danish Culture by : Norman Berdichevsky

Download or read book An Introduction to Danish Culture written by Norman Berdichevsky and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denmark, the southernmost Nordic nation, remains little-known to many citizens of the world. Too often conflated with its Scandinavian neighbors to the north, it is a land of generally flat terrain, with an inviting temperate climate. The land of the Danes has much to offer visitors, and this guide to Danish society, culture, and history offers an inside look, with details on Denmark's substantial contributions to science, engineering, exploration, seafaring, literature, philosophy, music, architecture, and many other fields. Brief portraits depict such Danes as "Clown Prince" Victor Borge, Hans Christian Andersen, Kierkegaard, and Out of Africa author Karen Blixen. Throughout, there is a focus upon Denmark's human rights record, democratic institutions, and humanistic traditions. By examining Danish culture, this work fosters a greater understanding of Denmark, its people, and their way of life.

A Conspiracy Of Decency

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Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786746696
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis A Conspiracy Of Decency by : Emmy E Werner

Download or read book A Conspiracy Of Decency written by Emmy E Werner and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of Denmark managed to save almost their country's entire Jewish population from extinction in a spontaneous act of humanity -- one of the most compelling stories of moral courage in the history of World War II. Drawing on many personal accounts, Emmy Werner tells the story of the rescue of the Danish Jews from the vantage-point of living eyewitnesses- the last survivors of an extraordinary conspiracy of decency that triumphed in the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust. A Conspiracy of Decency chronicles the acts of people of good will from several nationalities. Among them were the German Georg F. Duckwitz, who warned the Jews of their impending deportation, the Danes who hid them and ferried them across the Oresund, and the Swedes who gave them asylum. Regardless of their social class, education, and religious and political persuasion, the rescuers all shared one important characteristic: they defined their humanity by their ability to act with great compassion. These people never considered themselves heroes -- they simply felt that they were doing the right thing.