Henny’s Boat: The Maritime Rescue Operation that Saved Denmark’s Jews and Sparked a Nationwide Revolt Against the Nazis
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| Weight | 0.6 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 9 × 6 × 0.42 in |
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Denmark’s World War II rescue of its Jewish population was a shining example of courage, morality and national resolve.
In September 1943, three years after they invaded Denmark, the Nazis set a plan in motion to capture the country’s nearly 8,350 Jews in a single night and send them on the path to annihilation. Word of the plan got out seventy-two hours before the Nazis were set to pounce, triggering a nationwide effort to warn and hide the Jews. On the night of the scheduled raids, the Gestapo came up almost empty-handed. The chase, however, had just begun. The only safe place within reach was Sweden, and the only way to get there was by boat.
Danes organized escape routes on hundreds of boats from points all along Denmark’s eastern shore. Gerda III — Henny’s Boat — was one of the most successful. During a month of clandestine crossings, Gerda III and the people associated with it saved at least three hundred Jews, ten to fifteen on each early morning passage.
Twenty-two-year-old Henny Sinding was at the heart of Gerda III’s rescue missions. Working with the boat’s four-man crew, a university-based resistance group, and a young navy cadet with whom she was falling in love, Henny escorted Jews from rendezvous points around Copenhagen to a warehouse attic overlooking the boat . Then, in pre-dawn darkness, she slipped them into the boat’s cargo hold, eluding Nazi sentries who patrolled the dock. Gerda III’s crew completed the escape, traveling past German warships and mines to Swedish ports.
When the Jewish rescue operation was complete, Henny’s team became leaders in the armed resistance, and Gerda III continued to be a lifeboat for persons hunted by the Nazis. conducting daring sabotage missions throughout Denmark, and Gerda III continued to be a lifeboat for persons hunted by the Nazis. Their story epitomizes the story of a nation that rose from a humbling surrender to battle the Nazis and hand the Gestapo its most glaring defeat.
The book is an expanded and enhanced version of the author’s earlier book, Henny and Her Boat, Righteousness and Resistance in Nazi Occupied Denmark.
Howard Veisz
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