Barrister Carl Bertil Henriques (left) walks outside with a colleague.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 90091

Variant Locale: Kobenhavn
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Denmark
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leo Goldberger

Biography: Carl Bertil Henriques (1870-1957) was a noted supreme-court barrister and long-time head of the Danish Jewish community. During the Nazi occupation of Denmark he urged the Jewish community to stand by the king and his government. On September 28, 1943, he was visited by three Danish politicians, Hans Hedtoft, H.C. Hansen and Herman Dedichen, who warned him of the impending deportation of Danish Jews. The politicians had been tipped off by a sympathetic German official, Georg Duckwitz. Henriques passed on this warning to the rest of the leadership of Danish Jewry. The information was then to transmitted to all Danish Jews setting in motion a rescue mission that eventually saved 7,200 of Denmarks 7,800 Jews.
Keyword: CANES/WALKING STICKS
COURTS/COURTROOMS
DANES
HENRIQUES, CARL BERTIL
JEWS (DANISH)
LAWYERS/PROSECUTORS/DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
STAIRS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Leo Goldberger
Published Source: The Rescue of Danish Jews - Goldberger, Leo - New York University Press - p.17
: Record last modified: 2004-02-02 00:00:00
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