Göran von Otter
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Baron Göran Fredrik von Otter was a Swedish diplomat and friherre, best known for his service in Berlin during World War II. Birgitta and Anne Sofie von Otter are von Otter's daughters; former Swedish
Rescue of the Danish Jews
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The Danish resistance movement, with the assistance of many Danish citizens, managed to evacuate 7,500 of Denmark's 8,000 Jews, plus 686 non-Jewish spouses, by sea to nearby neutral Sweden during the
Danish Jews being transported to Sweden
Prewar Polish passport used to register in Sweden in 1943 after being smuggled away from occupied Denmark.
From October 1943 the boat Gerda III of the Danish Lighthouse and Buoy Service was used to ferry Jewish refugees from German-occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden. With a group of some ten refugees on board for each trip, the vessel set out for her official lighthouse duties before detouring to the coast of Sweden. Between the lighthouse manager's daughter Henny Sinding Sundø and Gerda III's crew (Skipper Otto Andersen, John Hansen, Gerhardt Steffensen, and Einar Tønnesen), they together ferried approximately 300 Jews to safety.
Memorial in "Denmark Square", Jerusalem