During the Holocaust, some communities risked everything to save their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis. What can we learn from their example?
A 1943 photograph of refugee children in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, with some of the adults who cared for them.Did King Christian X of Denmark actually wear a Star of David badge in solidarity with his Jewish subjects during the Nazi occupation of 1940-45? The well-known story is not, in fact, true, but the reality is even more amazing: The Danes forbade discrimination against their nearly 8,000 Jewish countrymen, so the king’s protest would have been unnecessary.
Religious bigotry was anathema in Denmark, and to avoid trouble, the Nazis had initially agreed to stand down from persecuting the country’s Jews. When Hitler himself finally ordered a round-up in October 1943, Danes came together to mount a massive clandestine rescue, transporting their Jewish neighbors in an amateur flotilla across the straits to safety in Sweden. Almost all Danish Jews survived the war.
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