Travel in Books - Denmark

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Books

• 📖Number the Stars - Lois Lowry | 🌍 Travel to Denmark of 1943

Number the Stars

by Lois Lowry

The book "Number the Stars" let us travel together with the brave Annemarie Johansen to Denmark of 1943.

The story tells the history of the danish jews and other minorities escaping from a Copenhagen that was taken from the Danes and controled by the Nazis during World War II. The book tells a lot about the Danish people and their courage to find a way to help saving persecuted people by creating an ingenious plan of transfering these people from an occupied Denmark to a neutral Sweden. It involves boats, fishermen, the courageous Danish Resistance and, something so subtle and simple, as a hand-hemmed linen handkerchief.

From this book I would like to save some parts and share it: "...the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one".

Tip💡If you want to check some important places where the rescue of the danish jews happen and, even check one of the boats that participated in this historical moment check my post about "Denmark - The Land of Hygge" and read the Dragør part where you can find the boat Elisabeth K571.

Elisabeth K571, constructed in 1941, is one the few remaining boat that participated in the transfer of refugees from Denmark (occupied by the Nazis) to Sweden (neutral) in October, 1943. Around 700 refugees were transfered to Sweden from Dragør and Einar Larsen (Elisabeth's skipper), helped about 70 refugees before having to flee himself to Sweden in 1944.

If you have other book suggestions with stories that tell the History of Denmark but specially Danish people and culture let me know and remember leave your can and explore the world!

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