![Portrait of a preschool class in Copenhagen. Gus Goldenburger (top row, second from left) was one of the few Jewish students in the ... [LCID: 01215]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b1d6d9c8-ca91-47af-a143-6998263fff19.jpg "Portrait of a preschool class in Copenhagen. Gus Goldenburger (top row, second from left) was one of the few Jewish students in the ... [LCID: 01215]")
Portrait of a preschool class in Copenhagen. Gus Goldenburger (top row, second from left) was one of the few Jewish students in the class. His family moved to Denmark from Czechoslovakia, fearing the rising tide of Nazism. When the Nazis planned to deport Danish Jewry, the Goldenburgers managed to escape to Sweden, where they remained until the end of the war. After the war, the Goldenburgers returned to Copenhagen. Photograph taken in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1938–1939.
Item View![Jewish refugees from Denmark upon arrival in neutral Sweden. [LCID: 86199]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/fdc177db-b691-481c-a166-70a84e045240.jpg "Jewish refugees from Denmark upon arrival in neutral Sweden. [LCID: 86199]")
Jewish refugees from Denmark upon arrival in neutral Sweden. 1943.
Item View![Danish refugees register in Sweden after escaping from Denmark. [LCID: 62202]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/1468e4e0-9a89-4522-8194-5c73760e7dee.jpg "Danish refugees register in Sweden after escaping from Denmark. [LCID: 62202]")
Danish refugees register in Sweden after escaping from Denmark. Sweden, after October 1943.
Item View![Jewish refugees being rescued aboard a Danish fishing boat bound for Sweden. [LCID: 62182]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/24763bfc-0630-4654-8754-80eb3422a395.jpg "Jewish refugees being rescued aboard a Danish fishing boat bound for Sweden. [LCID: 62182]")
Jewish refugees being rescued aboard a Danish fishing boat bound for Sweden. October 1943.
Item View![A boat used by Danish fishermen to transport Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. [LCID: 41224]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/9fbf794b-26ff-4bde-8eb8-c251a82557f0.jpeg "A boat used by Danish fishermen to transport Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. [LCID: 41224]")
A boat used by Danish fishermen to transport Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. Denmark, date uncertain.
Item View![Danish fishermen used this boat to carry Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. [LCID: 62187]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3ae68db5-a9a4-4c9b-ba74-795eb4dc2e57.jpg "Danish fishermen used this boat to carry Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. [LCID: 62187]")
Danish fishermen used this boat to carry Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. Denmark, 1943 or 1944.
Item View![Danish fishermen (foreground) ferry Jews across a narrow sound to safety in neutral Sweden during the German occupation of Denmark. [LCID: 70737]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8e96194b-2079-4915-8a2b-59d7150495f9.jpg "Danish fishermen (foreground) ferry Jews across a narrow sound to safety in neutral Sweden during the German occupation of Denmark. [LCID: 70737]")
Danish fishermen (foreground) ferry Jews across a narrow sound to safety in neutral Sweden during the German occupation of Denmark. Sweden, 1943.
Item View![Rabbi Marcus Melchior, Danish chief rabbi, who warned his congregants that the Germans intended to round up Denmark's Jews. [LCID: 76000]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/11ab707f-b73f-4523-b735-42c5859dcc33.jpg "Rabbi Marcus Melchior, Danish chief rabbi, who warned his congregants that the Germans intended to round up Denmark's Jews. [LCID: 76000]")
Rabbi Marcus Melchior, Danish chief rabbi, who warned his congregants that the Germans intended to round up Denmark's Jews. Melchior himself went into hiding and escaped to Sweden. Copenhagen, Denmark, before 1943.
Item View![Portrait of Georg Duckwitz, German naval attache in Denmark who leaked the Nazi plan to deport Danish Jews. [LCID: 62160]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8a2b28ce-7972-4a3c-9f2b-13f6d2e0892d.jpg "Portrait of Georg Duckwitz, German naval attache in Denmark who leaked the Nazi plan to deport Danish Jews. [LCID: 62160]")
Portrait of Georg Duckwitz, German naval attache in Denmark who leaked the Nazi plan to deport Danish Jews. Place and date uncertain.
Item View![Danish fascists demonstrate their solidarity with the occupying Germany powers. [LCID: tl296]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/a377e0a7-dd64-46c7-879b-677a260e8f8f.jpg "Danish fascists demonstrate their solidarity with the occupying Germany powers. [LCID: tl296]")
Danish fascists demonstrate their solidarity with the occupying Germany powers. The rally ended in street fighting. Copenhagen, Denmark, November 1940.
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King Christian X. According to popular legend, King Christian X chose to wear a yellow star in support of the Danish Jews during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. In another version, the Danish people decided to wear a yellow star for the same reason. Both of these stories are fictional. However, the legend conveys an important historical truth: both the King and the Danish people stood by their Jewish citizens and were instrumental in saving the overwhelming majority of them from Nazi persecution and death.
Item View![The Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile from July 1944 to May 1945, was made up of leaders of the four ... [LCID: tl297]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/d62133be-8d61-40c4-82be-53c6e518f861.jpg "The Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile from July 1944 to May 1945, was made up of leaders of the four ... [LCID: tl297]")
The Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile from July 1944 to May 1945, was made up of leaders of the four main resistance groups. London, Great Britain, between July 1944 and May 1945.
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