In October 1943, the Danish resistance movement, with the assistance of many Danish citizens, managed to evacuate 7,220 of Denmark's 7,800 Jews, plus 686 non-Jewish spouses, by sea to nearby neutral Sweden during the Second World War.
In October 1943, the Danish resistance movement, with the assistance of many Danish citizens, managed to evacuate 7,220 of Denmark's 7,800 Jews, plus 686 non-Jewish spouses, by sea to nearby neutral Sweden.
The battle at Kursk in July 1943 was considered to be the turning point of WWII and also of numerous countries' politics.
One year earlier, in November 1942, the Germans, with the assistance of collaborationist Norwegian officials, began rounding up Jews in Norway. The Germans (Norway) deported approximately 770 Norwegian Jews to the death- and concentration camps. The main group of deportees was sent to Auschwitz. The train journey from the port of Stettin to Auschwitz took 28 hours. At the selection at the ramp in Auschwitz, 186 people were transferred to a labor camp. The remaining 345 were murdered directly in the Auschwitz gas chambers.
Approximately 900 Jews were smuggled out of Norway by the Norwegian resistance movement, mostly to Sweden but some also to the United Kingdom.
Only 464 Danish Jews were arrested and transported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. The Danish Red Cross was frequently monitoring the condition of the Danish Jews at Theresienstadt. A total of 51 Danish Jews—mostly elderly—died of disease at Theresienstadt.
At the end of WWII, on April 17, 425 Danish Jews (among them some newborns) were transported to Sweden by White Bus mission. No Norwegians were brought to Sweden by this "Scandinavian transport" as most of the Norwegian Jews were murdered in Auschwitz. White buses on the way to Theresienstadt brought 400 Frenchmen, mainly sick POWs that the Germans removed from Neuegamme to get the space for the "Scandinavians".
Approximately 900 Jews were smuggled out of Norway by the Norwegian resistance movement, mostly to Sweden but some also to the United Kingdom.
Only 464 Danish Jews were arrested and transported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. The Danish Red Cross was frequently monitoring the condition of the Danish Jews at Theresienstadt. A total of 51 Danish Jews—mostly elderly—died of disease at Theresienstadt.
At the end of WWII, on April 17, 425 Danish Jews (among them some newborns) were transported to Sweden by White Bus mission. No Norwegians were brought to Sweden by this "Scandinavian transport" as most of the Norwegian Jews were murdered in Auschwitz. White buses on the way to Theresienstadt brought 400 Frenchmen, mainly sick POWs that the Germans removed from Neuegamme to get the space for the "Scandinavians".
