A Day In October

While its title refers to the successful evacuation of some 7,000 Jews from Denmark to neutral Sweden on the eve of their arrest and deportation by the occupying Nazis in 1943, A DAY IN OCTOBER focuses on the plight of one particular family as they face this historic event.

Denmark would seem to be an exceptional case in occupied Europe. First, it was ruled not by the German Army or the dreaded SS, but by the officials of the Foreign Ministry who ruled with kid gloves for some time. The country also did not have a deep tradition of extreme right-wing politics like France or of anti-Semitism like Poland. There is also a hint of links to high-ranking anti-Nazis in...