Chapter 15 – The Liberation
In May 1945 the Germans surrender and Denmark is liberated. The former prisoners now return from Sweden. But homecoming is not all perfect.
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About "The Liberation" (8:19 min.)
At this moment, it is announced that Montgomery has informed that the German troops in Holland, Northwestern Germany and Denmark have surrendered.
Birgit, Bjørn, Jytte, Poul, Rachel and Salle are in Sweden with their families when the message of liberation is broadcast on the evening of May 4, 1945. The next day, a celebration is held with congratulations from the Swedes. Liberation means that the deported Danish Jews’ time, first as prisoners and then as refugees, is over. They can return to Denmark. For some, it is mostly a positive experience to return: They can immediately move into the house or apartment they had to leave during the war. For others, the homecoming is not quite so happy. Strangers have taken over their homes, and not all members of the family have survived the war years. Slowly, the six return to the lives that stopped so abruptly in 1943. They are again part of a normal society and an altogether normal everyday life with family, school, and friends. Very little around them has changed, but they are changed forever.