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“Sold, 21 Jews to the Gestapo for 600 kr.” That was the headline on the front page of EkstraBladet in 1945. The article was about two informers who had informed the Gestapo that a Jewish escape to Sweden would take place from the Chemical Factory at Amager Strandvej. Those Jews included two-year-old Ib Katznelson and his family. Katznelson is the first to thoroughly analyze what happened at the Chemical Factory. Ib relates his mother’s and father’s stories, along with those of others in the camp by means of testimonies, letters, and historical documentation.

About the Author

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Ib Katznelson was born in Copenhagen in 1941. He graduated as an economist from the University of Copenhagen in 1967 and he had a long career in the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Affairs. For a period he was Financial Councellor at the Danish Delegation to the OECD in Paris and during the last six years of his career he was Danish representative at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London.