04/09/2026
The story you never heard about the Little Mermaid, right before Shabbat.
Everyone knows she sits at Langelinie harbor in Copenhagen, gazing out at the water. Most visitors never learn what happened at that same pier on October 2, 1943, when 198 Jews were brought there and put on a ship bound for Theresienstadt. It was one of only two deportation transports to leave Denmark that October. Most Danish Jews were never caught. Neighbors hid them. Fishermen carried them across the sound to Sweden by the thousands, one of the largest rescues of Jews anywhere in occupied Europe.
The untold stories are a crucial part of the learning on a J² journey.