During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's planned round-up and delivery to concentration camps of all Jews. Story is told from the point of view of one Jewish family. English dialogue and U.S. actors top-cast
A Sudent film. The wartime experiences of the producer’s grandfather, Leopold Edelsten, born 1934 in Denmark. Edelsten narrates how he survived the German occupation and revisits the places he stayed in or passed through during his escape from Denmark to Sweden. Edelsten and his family first hid at the practice of his uncle’s colleague.They successfully reached Sweden.
The student film was selected as the winning movie in a competition between movies depicting the rescue and escape of Danish Jewry to Sweden.