There were police officers who not only looked the other way when the refugees turned up in groups, but also warned them about Nazi checkpoints. Members of the Danish underground movement emerged who could tell the Jews who was to be trusted. But what did exist was the art of improvisation and the helpfulness of many Danes, who now had a chance to prove themselves. Where would they be safe? How were the Nazis attempting to find them? There was no refugee center, no leadership, no organization and exasperatingly little reliable information. 'We came across kind and good people, but they had no idea about what was happening at the time,' writes Poul Hannover, one of the refugees, about those dark days in which humanity triumphed.ДЄt some point, however, the refugees no longer knew what to do next. Along the way, they found shelter in the homes of friends or business partners, squatted in abandoned summer homes or spent the night with hospitable farmers.

They left the Danish cities they had long called home and fled to the countryside, which was unfamiliar to many of them. They left at night, thousands of Jewish families, setting out by car, bicycle, streetcar or train.

A new book examines this historical anomaly. After being tipped off about imminent roundups by prominent Nazis, resisters evacuated the country's 7,000 Jews to Sweden by boat. 3, 2013— - Denmark was the only European country to save almost all of its Jewish residents from the Holocaust.

Escaping into the night book summary