"Righteous Among The Nations"
The Danish resistance movement as a collective effort, rather than as individuals, has been honoured at Yad Vashem in Israel as being part of the "Righteous Among the Nations". The rescue of the Jews of Denmark is represented in Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum by an authentic fishing boat from the Danish village of Gilleleje that was used to rescue Jews.
Also honoured are a handful of Danes who were not members of the official resistance movement, and Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz.
Read more about this topic: Rescue Of The Danish Jews
Famous quotes containing the words righteous and/or nations:
“Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 1:18,19.
“Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody’s image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)