Denmark, Jews, and the Holocaust in 10 Minutes

Everything Jewish - 10 Minutes at a Time · Oct 31, 2026 · 11m

In October 1943, as the Gestapo prepared to round up Denmark's 7,800 Jewish citizens on Rosh Hashanah, a German diplomat leaked the plot—and an entire nation mobilized to defy the Final Solution. In one of the Holocaust's most extraordinary acts of collective resistance, ordinary Danish citizens, fishermen, police, and underground resistance fighters sheltered their neighbors and ferried over 90% of the country's Jewish population across the choppy Øresund strait to neutral Sweden under the cover of night. Even for the few hundred captured and sent to Theresienstadt, relentless pressure from…