![]() ![]() We lulled ourselves into a certain kind of calm thinking that maybe they would limit themselves to new laws and the like. ![]() ![]() From the middle of September the rumors began to circulate that persecution of the Jews would come, and we were nervous when Jewish books and records were stolen from offices of the Jewish congregation where they were kept. A few days later she noted: We were optimistic, and couldn’t and wouldn’t believe that as Danes we could come to experience the horrors that Jews in the other German-occupied countries had gone through. To establish a measure of normality in what suddenly seemed not to be normal at all. The whole thing seemed at once urgent and unreal. They needed to be warm and practical and not take up too much space. The children’s clothes, Gunnar’s, her own. She went through the packing lists one more time. ![]()
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