Experience a touching traveling exhibition

Poignant traveling exhibition about the fate of the Danish Jews at the Danish Jewish Museum

23 October 2024 – 2 March 2025

The traveling exhibition "October '43 – The fate of the Danish Jews" was created in connection with the marking of the 80th anniversary of October 1943 in 2023. The exhibition has subsequently been shown in several places in Germany and is now returning to Denmark and the Danish Jewish Museum.

On the night between October 1 and 2, 1943, the German occupying power in Denmark organized a raid to capture and deport the Jews in Denmark. More than 7.000 men, women and children had to go into hiding.

The vast majority of Jews were sent to Sweden with the help of Danish non-Jews, but almost 500 of them were caught and deported to the Jewish ghetto Theresienstadt.

This traveling exhibition puts words and pictures to this poignant story.

Practical information

The exhibition concept was created by Simon Kratholm Ankjærgaard, cand. Scientist. and Soc. Dr. Christian Schölzel

The exhibition can be experienced at the Danish Jewish Museum from 23 October 2024 to 2 March 2025.

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Thanks to the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for financial support for the development of the exhibition and to the Danish Embassy in Berlin, Dr. Felix Klein and Therkel Stræde.

The installation of the exhibition at the Danish Jewish Museum is supported by the Politikken Fonden.