A German official in Denmark, George Ferdinand Dukwitz, has warned the Jewish community that the Nazis are planning to arrest all of you on Rosh Hashanah when you will all be together at synagogue services.
The Danish resistance acts quickly. The ships on which you are to be
deported are blown up in the harbor, and arrangements are made to ferry
nearly all of Denmark's 7,200 Jews to Sweden. You feel terrible about
leaving the elderly in the Jewish Old Folks Home,
but other young
people convince you that you owe more to the Jewish future, that you must
survive with them. In the end, you simply have no choice; they drag you
along and push you on the boat.
An entire fleet of small boats takes you and the other Danish Jews across the Öresund and into the harbor at Malmö. There, representatives of the (American Jewish) Joint Distribution Committee have arranged housing and food. Throughout the war, you have lived in southern Sweden, protected by that country's neutrality, and supported by the JDC.
After the war, you must decide what to do with your life.
If you choose to return to Denmark and build a life for yourself there, continue to page 115.
If you decide to go as far as possible from Europe and all of its terrible memories, continue to page 116.