Deborah Hopkinson

The remark­able sto­ry of the Dan­ish resis­tance and res­cue of over 7,000 Jews dur­ing WWII.

When the Nazis invad­ed Den­mark on Tues­day, April 9, 1940, the peo­ple of this tiny coun­try to the north of Ger­many awoke to a dev­as­tat­ing sur­prise. The gov­ern­ment of Den­mark sur­ren­dered qui­et­ly, and the Danes were ordered to go about their dai­ly lives as if noth­ing had changed. But every­thing had changed. These are the sto­ries of the hero­ic young men and women who would not stand by as their coun­try was occu­pied by a dan­ger­ous ene­my. Rather, they fought back. Some were spies, pass­ing tac­ti­cal infor­ma­tion to the British; some were sabo­teurs, who aimed to ham­per and impede Nazi oper­a­tions in Den­mark; and 95% of the Jew­ish pop­u­la­tion of Den­mark were sur­vivors, res­cued by their fel­low coun­try­men, who had the courage and con­science that drove them to act. With her tal­ent for dig­ging deep in her research and weav­ing real voic­es into her nar­ra­tives, Hop­kin­son reveals the thrilling truth behind one of WWI­I’s most dar­ing resis­tance movements.