In Denmark it Could Not Happen: The Flight of the Jews to Sweden in 1943A moving narrative about heroes and ethics, survival and appreciation. Part memoir and part pure history, Pundiks talent for storytelling and his journalistic compunction for detail puts his book in a class of Holocaust literature still capable of expanding our understanding of humanitys darkest years. |
Contents
THE JEWS GO UNDERGROUND | 11 |
REPORTS | 17 |
THE ESCAPE FAILS | 24 |
Copyright | |
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