The power in this book, however, does not lie in harrowing statistics, nor in newspaper editor Lidegaard’s quite brilliant recreation of the 1940s Copenhagen political and social backdrop against which the Jewish flight into Sweden is set. In all, only 1,600 Danish Jews were deported. In Denmark and Bulgaria, fewer than 1% were killed. Around 20% were killed in Italy, France and Belgium. Up to 70-90% of the Jews in Hungary, the Netherlands, Latvia, Greece, Lithuania and Poland died during the Holocaust.Īround 40-50% died in Estonia, Belgium, Norway and Romania. The truth is most European states came up short, bar Denmark and Bulgaria. That may seem like a fairly fundamental tenet for any society, but very few societies have seen the depth of their commitment to values so sternly tested as Europeans were tested during WWII.
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