RESEARCH AT THE MUSEUM
 
In the fall of 2007, The Danish Jewish Museum initiated a research and documentation project. The aim is to collect and disseminate knowledge about the Danish Jews’ experiences during World War II and the remembrance hereof in the postwar years.

The flight of the Danish Jews to Sweden in October 1943 is one of the most dramatic events in recent Danish history. Denmark is famous throughout the world for "October ‘43". Although much has been written about October ’43 since the end of World War II, the specific events are far from well documented.

The museum is collecting objects and narrative accounts that can shed new light on the many different experiences of Danish Jews during the war: The years in exile in Sweden, Jewish children who were hidden in Denmark, Danish Jews in KZ Theresienstadt, the return to Denmark in 1945 and the memory of the events in the post-war period.

For more information please contact project manager Sofie Lene Bak slb@jewmus.dk

The project is supported by: Erindringsmøntmidlerne, Højesteretssagfører C.L. Davids Legat for Slægt og Venner, Konsul George Jorck og hustru Emma Jorcks Fond, Aase og Ejnar Danielsens Fond, Brødrene Hartmanns Fond, Farumgaard-Fonden, Kulin Family Fund, Ernst og Vibeke Husmans Fond, Hotelejer Harboes Fond, Van Leer Group Foundation, Ivar Samrén, Oticon Fonden and Bikubenfonden.

Read an info folder about the project

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