Dallas Morning News-Jews Escape

By Dax Davis

Denmark- I recently went to Denmark and I caught up with one family that is hiding Jews from the Nazis.  I told them who I was and they let me stay with them until I had to go home.

The Johansens think it’s wrong what is happening to the Jews.  They are not Jews, but their best friends are.  They have taken the family in to hide them.  They are planning to escape to Sweden where it is free fron the Nazis.  The Johansens are going to lead a group of Jews to Sweden by a boat.  Until they start going they are goint to be hidden by fishermen in the bottom of their boats.  they are going to take blankets, clothes, sweaters, and a handkerchief that was covered with rabbit’s blood to attract the dogs and cocaine to make the dog not smell the Jews hiding.  The Johansens were very successful on saving their friends, the Rosens.  If you were the Johansens, would you do the same thing and risk your life saving a family of Jews because of what Hitler was doing?

There were thousands of other jews that weren’t helped and they died in concentration camps.  What the Johansens did was brave and risky, but they stood up for what was right.

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