{"id":3250,"date":"2010-08-10T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2010-08-10T10:49:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T09:49:37","slug":"how-the-danes-saved-their-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"How the Danes saved their Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just returned from a four-day break in Copenhagen with my sister Silvia which involved some very different sights and experiences.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very interested in the Second World War so I made a point of visiting the\u00a0 comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natmus.dk\/sw23424.asp\">Danish Resistance Museum<\/a>. Also most of my closest friends are Jewish and I wanted to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewmus.dk\/?language=uk\">Danish Jewish Museum<\/a> whose innovative\u00a0 designed came from the American architect Daniel Libeskind who has had his work selected for Ground Zero in New York.<\/p>\n<p><CENTER><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/DJM.jpg\" BORDER=3><BR><font size=\"-2\">Roger &#038; Silvia at Danish Jewish Museum<\/font><br \/>\n<\/CENTER><\/p>\n<p>A common piece of history commemorated by these two museums is the little-appreciated spiriting out of Denmark of 7,000 Jews when it became apparent that the Germans intended to imprison them in Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia (which I have visited). All except 481 were sailed in small boats over to neutral Sweden where they survived the war.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark was the only country in occupied Europe that saved its Jews and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rescue_of_the_Danish_Jews\">the story<\/a> deserves to be much better known.<\/p>\n<p>To put this act of humanity in the context of the untold tragedy that was the Holocaust, check out<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/history3.html#Holocaust\"> this book review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just returned from a four-day break in Copenhagen with my sister Silvia which involved some very different sights and experiences. I&#8217;m very interested in the Second World War so I made a point of visiting the\u00a0 comprehensive Danish Resistance Museum. Also most of my closest friends are Jewish and I wanted to see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}