ESCAPING TO SWEDEN

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 8, 5 October 1943, Page 5

ESCAPING TO SWEDEN

Persecuted Danish Jews

(Received October 4, 7.5 p.m.)

LONDON, October 4. More than 1000 Danish Jews have reached Sweden in the past three days. The “Aftonbladet's” Malmo correspondent reports fierce clashes between Jews resisting arrest and members of the Gestapo aided by Danish Nazis. The Jews are reaching Sweden aboard Danish fishing boats at an average cost of £l2O each. Some of them remarked: “We‘preferred to risk death rather than be sent to Poland.” The Germans have so far not replied to the Swedish offer of asylum to Danish Jews. The Stockholm correspondent of The Times” says that the Germans broadcast an explanation for the large-scale arrests of Danish Jews in which it was stated that because of their anti-German agitation and support for terror and sabotage acts the Jews had essentially aggravated the situation in Denmark and that therefore they had been “separated from public life.” It is pointed out here, says the correspondent that Denmark has. never had a Jewish problem. The Jewish population numbered some 6000. Many worldfamous Danes are Jews, among them the Nobel Prize winner. Dr, N. H. D. Bohr, Director of the Copenhagen Institute of Theoretical Physics. He won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1922.