Read during Spring 2002

A childrens book about the Danish resistance in World War II. The main characters are a Danish family with siblings who married over the rest of Scandinavia. It started out slowly with the invasions of Denmark and Norway but ends much stronger, with the evacuation by the Christian Danish population of most of the Jewish Danish population before the Germans could send them to concentration camps. The growth of the character Thor is also very well done.

An authentic story of the Nazi occupation in Denmark and secret plans to prevent the deportation of Danish Jews to concentration camps

A parallel account of the early resistance in Norway and Denmark, told through the eyes of young Thor Eriksen and his Danish cousins, Karen and Kristian Jensen. Together, the three young people mature and change. Eventually, they must put all they have learned to the test when the Danish people join together to rescue the Danish Jews

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