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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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Oslo: The Escape from Norway
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Copenhagen – Refugees and Rescue: The Ambivalence of Danish Holocaust History
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I AM ROMA
Learn more about a contemporary perspective on the history and treatment of the Roma in Europe.
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Migration - Contemporary Debates
Listen to a discussion on migration and learn how to understand education and economic migration in Regions in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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The Turquoise Tent
The purpose of The Turquoise Tent (det turkise telt) is to include ethnic minorities in the cultural life of Aarhus by establishing a platform that provides the opportunity for minority and majority communities to meet and interact.
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Documentary: "Theresienstadt - Danish Children in Nazi Captivity"
Senior Fellow Solvej Berlau decided to create a documentary film about Danish Holocuast survivors the by telling the stories of six Jewish children who were transported from Denmark to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt.
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Senior Fellow Action Day 2019
During the 2019 Copenhagen Fellowship, Senior Fellows led workshops, lectures and discussions on a myriad of issues.
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The Danish Illusion: The Gap Between Principle and Practice in the Danish Welfare System
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.