By the end of the war, more than 95 percent of Denmark's approximately eight thousand Jews would flee Denmark and avoid becoming victims of the Holocaust. This survival rate is extraordinary, but unfortunately, this was not the case in the rest of Nazi-occupied Europe.
To understand why, we have to go back to the 1940s.
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USHMM: RG-60.0345; German occupation of Denmark; Accessed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv
A large group of Dutch Jews who have just arrived in Theresienstadt are parked in one of the camp entrances. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive #20255. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ivan Vojtech Fric.
Pre-war portrait of a Danish couple, their daughter and her two Jewish friends in pre-war Denmark. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photographic Archives #44560. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dr. Dov Kischinovsky
A Jewish refugee from Denmark, transported by ferry to Sweden during the Danish rescue operation in October 1943, works in his own hairdressing salon in Sweden. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive #59695. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Esther Diament Nussbaum
A Jewish mother and her son pose in a Copenhagen park. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive #25279. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Herbert Krogman
Five Danish Jews pose in front of a house in Copenhagen. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive #75024. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Hetty Klein
A young Jewish boy gets into a small car on a sidewalk in Copenhagen. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive #25261. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Herbert Krogman
Wedding party in Denmark in the presence of many Jewish religious leaders. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive #84541. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leo Goldberger
A Jewish couple from Denmark who were transported to safety in Sweden pose with the Swedish family who welcomed them in the backyard of their home in Landskrona. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive #59715. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Birthe Trommer
Students and teachers at a school for Danish refugees in Gothenburg, Sweden. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive #01216. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leo Goldberger
A Jewish family from Denmark who was transported to safety in Sweden has a Christmas dinner with a Swedish family in Landskrona. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive #59716. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Birthe Trommer
Danish fishermen (foreground) carry a boat loaded with fugitives across a narrow strait to neutral Sweden. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive #70737. Copyright United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Frihedsmuseet, Copenhagen
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