New exhibition at Copenhagen City Hall

New exhibition at Copenhagen City Hall tells about the flight of the Danish Jews in October 1943.

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 helped to Sweden with the help of Danish non-Jews after risky escape attempts. But almost 500 of them were caught and deported to the Jewish ghetto in Theresienstadt.

The exhibition can be seen at Copenhagen City Hall from 8 - 15 February 2024

Concept and realization were created by Simon Kratholm Ankjærgaard, cand.scient.soc. and Dr. Christian Schölzel

Thanks to the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for financial support. A further thank you for assistance to: The Danish Embassy in Berlin, Dr. Felix Klein, Prof. Dr. Therkel Stræde, as well as all the eyewitnesses from that time who passed their story on to Simon Kratholm Ankjærgaard in connection with the creation of his work 'October 1943 – The flight and captivity of Danish Jews' (Lindhardt & Ringhof, 2022).