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Pre-Genocide - Warnings and Readiness to Protect
An anthology of personal interpretations, by researchers and writers, about alarm bells and the readiness to protect prior to genocides. The essays in this volume focus on the 1930s before the Holocaust in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark - as well as the years before the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Kurdistan, Rwanda and Bosnia.
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Stockholm: Antisemitism, Ambivalence and Action
Published by Humanity in Action in 2013, "Civil Society and the Holocaust: International Perspectives on Resistance and Rescue" examines the different ways that European countries and the United States responded to the Holocaust. Karin Kvist Geverts examines the Swedish case.
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Moving Beyond “the Danish Identity”: The Role of Ethnic Minorities in Forging a More Inclusive Society
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Humanitarian Asylum Policy: Does Denmark Believe in It?
Denmark can and must take part in reforming Europe’s asylum situation – on both the European and national levels.
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Bottle Collectors: An “invisible minority” in Kongens Have?
Senior Fellows Laura Hanson and Lea Olsen conducted an ethnographic case study on bottle collectors in Kongens Have, a park in Copenhagen, and explains how they act as a microcosm of Danish society.
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Divorced From Reality: The True Impact of Denmark’s 24 Year-Old Rule
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A Question of Culture and Belonging: Identity and Integration in Denmark
Senior Fellows Ilham Ali, Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul and Mark Kharas discuss the tug-of-war immigrants face in trying to cultivate an identity while integrating in Denmark.
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Greenlanders in Denmark: a Realistic Perspective of a Varied Group
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Controversial Christiania: Deciding the Fate of the Free Town
Humanity in Action Press
Discover our international Humanity in Action publications:
Shifting Paradigms: Humanity in Action Senior Fellows on Policy and Pluralism Across Borders
Shifting Paradigms is a volume of diverse articles on cross-border policy and pluralism written by Humanity in Action Senior Fellows.
Two Trees in Jerusalem
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity
Recognizing the intensification of transnational conflicts that both violently divide and intimately link our global communities, this book is a collection of diverse essays, which tackle international relations and migration.
Civil Society and the Holocaust: International Perspectives on Resistance and Rescue
In 2013, Humanity in Action Denmark held a conference in Copenhagen to mark the 70th anniversary of the flight and rescue of Danish Jewry. This book was published in association with the “October 1943” conference. The anthology examines how European societies dealt with the knowledge of the Nazi persecution of Jews in very different ways before, during and after the Holocaust.
Oktober '43: Danske jøders flugt til Sverige eller deportation til Theresienstad
Oktober '43: Danske jøders flugt til Sverige eller deportation til Theresienstad contains many interviews that explore the political considerations and decisions of Germany, Denmark and Sweden, the rescue mission across the Øresund strait and Sweden’s reception of the refugees.
Reflections on the Holocaust
The first book published by Humanity in Action, Reflections on the Holocaust is a collection of essays from Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members and lecturers from 1997 to 2010.