Throughout WWII, Sweden grew to become a saving place for folks in Denmark who needed to flee the Nazi occupiers. This granite monument commemorates the deed of Swedish authorities receiving the fugitives. That will be the Danish Jews and the liberty fighters. The memorial is from 1945 and was given by those who have been helped.
The Granite Struggle Memorial given by the saved Jews and Freedom Fighters
From Wikipedia:
In World Struggle II, Helsingborg was among the many most essential drop-off factors for the rescue of Denmark’s Jewish inhabitants in the course of the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler had ordered that every one Danish Jews have been to be arrested and deported to the focus camps on Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New 12 months which fell on 2 October 1943. When Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German maritime attaché acquired phrase of the order on 28 September 1943, he shared it with political and Jewish group leaders. Utilizing the identify Elsinore Stitching Membership (Danish: Helsingør Syklub) as a canopy for messages, the Danish inhabitants shaped an underground railroad of types, transferring Jews away from the intently watched Copenhagen docks to spots farther away, particularly Helsingør, simply two miles throughout the Øresund from Helsingborg. A whole bunch of civilians hid their fellow Danish residents—Jews—of their homes, farm lofts and church buildings till they might board them onto Danish fishing boats, private pleasure boats and ferry boats. Within the span of three nights, Danes had smuggled over 7200 Jews and 680 non-Jews (gentile members of the family of Jews or political activists) throughout the Øresund, to security in Sweden, with one of many major locations at Helsingborg.[9]
Beside this memorial is a white marble plate concerning the Danish Brigade, which got here right here on the Metropolis Corridor earlier than departing for Denmark on Might 5, 1945. They’d secretly skilled in Sweden to have the ability to assist the Allied Forces in tackling the Nazi occupiers.
The similar constructing homes a Norwegian struggle memorial, which commemorates the Norwegian surviving Focus Camp prisoners’ return from Germany over the past spring of the struggle in 1945.
The Struggle Memorial for serving to the Norwegian Focus Camp prisoners on their return dwelling
A view of the harbour and central Helsingborg
