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1/n On August 29, 1968, Yad Vashem recognized Henry Christian Thomsen and his wife Ellen as #RighteousAmongTheNations.
This Danish innkeeper, an active member of the resistance, saved the lives, at the risk of his own, of hundreds of Jews by helping them reach Sweden.
This Danish innkeeper, an active member of the resistance, saved the lives, at the risk of his own, of hundreds of Jews by helping them reach Sweden.
2/n Henry Christian Thomsen, active member of the Danish resistance and owner of an inn in the village of Snekkersten in the north of the island of Seeland in Denmark, will save the lives of hundreds of persecuted Jews by helping them reach Sweden, and pay with his life.
3/n Thomsen and his wife Ellen were involved in the resistance from its very beginnings, helping to transport illegal shipments to Sweden. When news leaked in October 1943 about the deportation of Jews from Denmark,
Ellen Margarethe & Henry Christen Thomsen
Ellen Margarethe & Henry Christen Thomsen
