Rescue of Denmark's Jews to Sweden in 1943
In October 1943, most Danish Jews escaped to neutral Sweden; USHMM estimates that about 7,200 Jews and 700 non-Jewish relatives reached safety.
In October 1943, Danish resistance workers, sympathisers, fishermen, police, and government actors helped most of Denmark’s Jews escape to neutral Sweden.
The rescue is a major humanitarian event, but the stronger reading keeps two facts together: Sweden accepted the Danish refugees in 1943, after years of much more restrictive policy toward Jewish refugees.