"The Danish Solution" is a 57-minute documentary about one of the best-known rescue operations during the Holocaust, in which more than 7,000 Jews in Denmark were taken in fishing and other small boats to safety in neutral Sweden in 1943. The film describes the work of the Danish resistance and of ordinary Danish citizens in this effort and dispels a number of myths and legends about Nazi-occupied Denmark.
This film, which will be shown in the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum Theater (Grout Museum District, Waterloo), is the second in a series focusing on rescue of Jews by non-Jews during the Holocaust and is being shown in conjunction with the traveling exhibit “BESA: Albanian Muslims Who Saved Jews During World War II,” which is on view at the Grout Museum of History & Science through July 7.