Testimony of David Sompolinski, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1921; regarding German occupation , 1940 and their escape to Sweden using fishing boats, October 1943.

Testimony of David Sompolinski, born in Copenhagen,Denmark,in 1921; regarding German occupation ,1940 and their escape to Sweden using fishing boats,October 1943. Childhood in a religious-Zionist family of immigrants from Poland; information about the Jewish community in Denmark; activity in the Mizrachi youth movement , 1933-1939; German occupation; works as a Danish policeman; attending the university of Copenhagen; receiving a deportation notice of the Jews of Denmark,September 1943; getting ready to escape to the villages near Copenhagen; Jews are helped by locals; escape by fishing boats to Sweden; life in Sweden until end of war;saving Jewish childrenby non Jews in Sweden; return to Denmark after war; completing degree and receiving doctorate; marriage; invitation to found a microbiology laboratory at the Assaf Harofe hospital,1951; aliya to Israel, absorption.