Valor
Valor
Valiant Danish women –
Village of Helsingor –
Virtue's vital vanguard
Veiled in the Sewing Club
Violence victims freed
Via Oresund’s strait -
Victory of valor
In 1943 after the Nazi occupation of Denmark, the women of Helsingor Denmark formed a resistance group called the Elsinore Sewing Club. Under this guise they were able to save hundreds of Jewish Danes from concentration camps by ferrying them across the Oresund Strait, two miles to neutral Sweden. It is estimated 90% of Denmark’s Jewish population was saved. It is a remarkable story of valor and compassion.
5-4-21
Contest: Pleiades V
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
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