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Darkness over Denmark the Danish resistance and the rescue of the Jews

An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II.

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Main Author: Levine, Ellen
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Holiday House, c2000.
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Jews > Persecutions > Denmark > Young adult nonfiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Denmark > Young adult nonfiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Denmark > Young adult nonfiction.
Denmark > Ethnic relations > Young adult nonfiction.
Denmark > History > German occupation, 1940-1945 > Young adult nonfiction.
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Summary:An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II.
Physical Description:x, 164 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-158) and index.
ISBN:0823414477 :
Author Notes:Ellen Levine was born in New York City on March 9, 1939. She received a master's degree in political science from the University of Chicago and a law degree from New York University School of Law. She was an attorney for a public-interest law group, a documentary filmmaker, and taught courses in writing for children and young adults in Vermont College's MFA program.

She wrote numerous books for children and young adults during her lifetime including Darkness Over Denmark, I Hate English, Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Stories, Rachel Carson: A Twentieth-Century Life, and Henry's Freedom Box. She died from lung cancer on May 26, 2012 at the age of 73.

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