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Portrait photograph by Judy Glickman of Danish fisherman who ferried Jews to safety

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    Portrait photograph by Judy Glickman of Danish fisherman who ferried Jews to safety
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    Brief Narrative
    Black and white photographic print taken by Judy Glickman in Gilleje, Denmark, in 1992 of Frede Svendsen, a Danish fisherman and rescuer. Frede used his boat to ferry Jews to Sweden. A rumor that a boat was leaving at 10pm resulted in hundreds trying to gain passage. There was a false alarm that the Gestapo was coming and as his boat left the dock, a man came running and at the last minute was pulled aboard. After the war, he returned to thank his rescuers. Germany occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, but allowed the Danish government to retain control of domestic affairs. Jews were not molested and the German presence was limited. After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and began to face military setbacks, a Danish resistance movement developed. On August 29, 1943, the Germans declared martial law and began to address the Jewish problem. A mass deportation was scheduled for October 1. The plan was leaked and, the night before the action, Danish citizens organized a large scale rescue effort and ferried 7000 people, nearly all the Jews in Denmark, to neutral Sweden.
    Artwork Title
    Frede Svendsen
    Date
    creation:  1992
    Geography
    creation: Denmark
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judith Ellis Glickman
    Contributor
    Subject: Frede Svendsen
    Photographer: Judy E. Glickman
    Subject: Judy E. Glickman
    Biography
    Frede Svendsen was a Danish fisherman from Gilleleje, Denmark. The Germans occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, but permitted the Danish government to retain control of domestic affairs. In October 1943, information that the Germans were prepared to begin the deportation of all the Jews in Denmark to concentration camps was leaked. Ordinary Danish citizens and resistance groups organized rescue efforts to hide and transport Jews to Sweden. Gilleleje was a large fishing harbor on the northernmost part of Zealand, Denmark (Zeeland, Netherlands) with train connections to Copenhagen. The local fishermen helped 1500 Danish Jews escape to Sweden. Frede, due to a false alarm that the Gestapo was coming, rescued 180 Jews who had gathered at the port in response to a rumor that a boat was leaving at 10pm. As the boat departed, a man came running and, at the last minute, was pulled aboard; he returned after the war to thank his rescuers. The war ended on May 2, 1945, when Berlin fell to the Soviet army. Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces and withdrew from Denmark.
    Judy Ellis Glickman is a photographer and the daughter of Dr. Irving Bennett and Louise Ellis. Her father was a noted CAlifornia pictorialist photographer in the 1930s and 1940s. She pursued photography at a young age and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 from the University of California at Los Angeles. She studied photography at UCLA from 1978-1985, the Maine Photographic Workshop from 1978-87, and the Portland School of Art from 1984-1985. Her grandparents emigrated to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, and her mother and grandmother in 1914. Though not a child of a Holocaust survivor, it was while visiting concentration camps in Poland in 1988 that she began to wonder how many unknown family members perished. During this trip, the work became more personal, real, and meaningful to her. She returns to Europe every year to visit and photograph Holocaust sites. She was asked by the Thanks to Scandinavia Foundation to create a photographic narrative documenting the Danish rescue effort. She has exhibited extensively and won numerous awards. Both her sons are rabbis. She is on the board of the Portland Museum of Art in Maine and is a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in England.

    Physical Details

    Classification
    Photographs
    Physical Description
    Black and white gelatin silver photographic print, portrait orientation, medium shot, shot in direct light, depicting an older white male with short white hair wearing a black Breton cap, standing on a pier. His large, solid body faces the camera and his eyes are squinted against the sunlight. He is smiling slightly and there are deep lines around his mouth. He is wearing dirty coveralls over a plaid collared shirt under a gray V-neck sweater. Two figures and some boat masts are in the background. The print is attached to a top hinged mat board with photo corners on the backboard. Pencil stop lines are on the reverse of the window mat. Pencil stop lines are on the reverse of the window mat.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm)
    pictorial area: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)
    Materials
    overall : mat board, gelatin silver print, pressure-sensitive tape, plastic, adhesive, graphite

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Donor retains copyright for this collection.

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Judith Ellis Glickman.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2024-11-07 12:25:30
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