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The lesson of Schindler’s List is that one driven, if complicated, hero made a difference during the Holocaust. A ceremony last week in New York made a different point: That an entire nation — in this case, Denmark — was able to rescue more than 7,000 Jews from the 1943 Nazi roundup. After a German diplomat tipped off the Danes to the coming sweep, they joined in near unity to save almost all their Jewish neighbors, helping most of them escape to Sweden in the course of just a few days. Judith Meisel, now a California grandmother, escaped a Nazi death march as a teenager; recalling the Danes who gave her sanctuary, she urged the Union of American Hebrew Congregations to recognize the 50th anniversary of the country’s feat. The result was that some 15,000 young North American Jews, ages five to fifteen, studied the Danish response and wrote letters of thanks to Denmark’s queen, Margrethe II. The letters…
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