Jewish Museum to host exhibition on Denmark and the Holocaust

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Jewish Museum to host exhibition on Denmark and the Holocaust

During the Holocaust, most European governments failed to protect their Jewish populations from the Nazis. One exception was Denmark, where about 95 percent of the Jewish community survived the war.  More than 7,000 Danish Jews were evacuated to Sweden after the Rosh Hashanah holiday in 1943, and hundreds more were saved when they were removed from the Theresienstadt concentration camp.   Unlike so many Jews from throughout Europe, many of those…