DANISH JEWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1943, Page 3

DANISH JEWS

MANY REACHING SWEDEN. ESCAPE FROM NAZI TERROR. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) 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 largescale 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 nevei had a Jewish problem. The Jewish population numbered some 6000. Many world-famous 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.