A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War IIBasic Books, 6. nóv. 2002 - 212 síður 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. |
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Aarhus action Anita Melchior April arrested arrived Bamberger Bent Melchior Berlin Birgit coast commander Concentration Camp Copenhagen Danes Danish friends Danish government Danish Jews Danish police Danish refugees Danish Resistance Danish resistance movement Denmark deportation diary father fisherman fishing boat Foreign Ministry Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz German patrol German soldiers German troops Gestapo Goldberger Hanne Hanne Meyer harbor Hedtoft Helsingborg Herbert Pundik Hitler Holocaust Memorial Museum Inger interview Isak Berkowitz Jerusalem Jewish refugees John Meilstrup Olsen John Saietz Kim Malthe-Bruun king Kirsten Meyer Nielsen later Leo Goldberger letter lives Lund Malmö Marcus Melchior Mette Shayne mother Museum of Danish Nazi Niels Bamberger night October officer Øresund personal communication Photo courtesy prisoners Red Cross remembered rescuers resistance movement sailed sent September September 29 ship Snekkersten Stockholm Sweden Swedish teenagers Theresienstadt told took Tove Bamberger transport underground United States Holocaust Werner Best wrote Yad Vashem Yahil