Timeline Friday 1 October 1943

Events on Friday 1 October 1943 2

• 1943 Rescue of the Danish Jews Wartime Heroism A massive civilian effort that evacuated over 7,000 Jews to neutral Sweden in the middle of the night.
• 1943 Rescue of the Danish Jews Most of Denmark's Jews escape to Sweden Denmark's Jews were warned of a German round-up planned for the night of 1–2 October. Ordinary Danes hid them and ferried them across the Øresund to neutral Sweden in fishing boats. About 7,200 of roughly 7,800 Danish Jews escaped.