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Publication | Denmark | 4 November 2013

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.

Article | Denmark | 9 July 2013

Copenhagen: Bright Hope and Deep Gloom – A New View of the 1943 Rescue Operation in Denmark

Article | Denmark

Introduction to Civil Society and the Holocaust: International Perspectives on Resistance and Rescue

Article | USA | 23 October 2013

Preface to Civil Society and the Holocaust: International Perspectives on Resistance and Rescue

This anthology was created as part of “Civil Society: Reactions to the Holocaust,” a series of events in Copenhagen commemorating the 70th anniversary of the flight and deportation of Danish Jews in October 1943. 

Publication | Denmark | 5 July 2013

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.

Board Member

Dr. Sinan Çankaya

Board Member

Corinne Arnold

2011 Amsterdam Fellowship

Laurens Korteweg

Publication | Germany | 1 July 2015

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.

Article | Denmark

The Educational Imperative