Gilleleje Church Attic Picture Page

Gilleleje Church Attic
Jewish Hiding Place

On Oct. 6, 1943, the Gestapo captured 81 Danish Jews hiding here, in the loft at the Gilleleje Church, in the coastal town Gilleleje, located on the north coast of the Danish island Zealand. While these and other captured Jews were sent to the Terezín ghetto prison in the Czech Republic, more than 7,000 other Danish Jews successfully escaped by boat to Sweden in October 1943 as the Nazis made a nationwide round-up of Jews.