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Jan 28, 2016 · It was an unusually chilly morning on Oct. 7, 1943, and Dr. Karl Henry Koster, medical head of the Bispebjerg Hospital, one of the Copenhagen’s largest, was just about to enter his third-floor office in the main wing after completing his first round of inspections when he noticed one of his medical students, Jorgen Knudsen, rushing towards him.
- Professor Erik. Husfeld, M.D.
- Staff Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen.
- Rockefeller Institute
- Copenhagen Kommunehospital, Copenhagen
- Staff Frederksberg Hospital
- Staff Blegdams Hospital
- Dr. Standbygaard
- Falak Rescue Corps
- Dr. Jørden Gersfelt
- Jørgen Knudsen
Leader of “The Ring”, Member of the “Freedom Council.” Organized The Ring to oppose Nazi deportation in Denmark and the treatment of Danish Jews. 75% of Medical personnel joined The Ring in the course of the war. (Flender, 1980, p. 127; Yahil, 1969, pp. 227, 246)
Welcomed hundreds of Jews during the deportation of October 1943. They were hidden among the hospitals patients until they could be taken to the dock for transport to Sweden. On October 7, 1943 200 Jews were hidden in Bispebjerg Hospital. Dr. Karl Henry Koster, Surgeon. Organized the rescue efforts of the staff of the Bispebjerg Hospital. Dr Koster...
Dr. Poul Astrup M.D., Rockefeller Institute, Copenhagen, member Communist Party and Danish Underground. Warned fellow doctors of deportation of Jews. He helped arrange with Dr. Eges to take Jews to the docks where they could be transported to Sweden by Danish fishermen.
Became center for rescue of Danish Jews. October 1943 operation was led in part by Dr. Steffen Lund. Dr. Steffen Lund, Eye Specialist, Kommunehospital. Organized rescue of Danish Jews throughout Denmark in the Kommunehospital during the deportation of October 1943. (Flender, 1980, p. 127; Werner, 2002, p. 49; Yahil, 1969, pp. 241-242, 487 FN 63; De...
Hid and placed Jews in the hospital to avoid Nazi deportation of October 1943. Hid Feder Family. (Flender, 1980, p. 127; Werner, 2002, p. 49, Testimony, Leon Feder)
Hid and placed Jews in the hospital to avoid Nazi deportation of October 1943. (Flender, 1980, pp. 116-124, 127, 164, 189, 226; Staff Bispebjerg Hospital; Werner, 2002, pp. 49-50)
Dr. Standbygaard was a woman physician with the Lyngby Group who participated in the rescue of Danish Jews in October 1943. Worked with Christian Jensen from Husum and Magius, an engineer from Funen Lane in Lyngby. (Bertelsen, 1954, pp. 123, 124, 148-149, 162, 178, 180; Flender, 1980, p. 148)
Transported Danish Jews in their ambulances to take them to boats in Danish harbors for transport to Sweden, October 1943. (Werner, 2002, p. 50)
Rescue Activist, Leader, Snekkersten Rescue Underground. Leader in Snekkersten Rescue Underground provided financial aid to and cooperated with Lyngby Group. Authored book, How we Fooled the Gestapo. (Bertelsen, 1954, pp. 67, 76, 82, 131; Gersfelt, 1945)
“Are you sure that there is nothing – really nothing that you have done against us? Come, I give you my word that we are going to let you go free. We really have nothing to hold you on. But, just for the fun of it, off the record, isn’t there anything that you have done against us?” Knudsen was so taken in by the officer’s apparent charm that he ad...
KØSTER, Dr. and Mrs. Karl Henry, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen. Leader of rescue efforts by Danish physicians, nurses and hospital personnel. Worked with Dr. Steffan Lund of the Kommunehospital in Copenhagen. More than 75 percent of doctors and nurses participated in the rescue of Danish Jews.
May 17, 1998 · The film's central figures are Dr. Karl Koster (Mr. Waterston) and his wife, Doris (Ms. Farrow). Though their tale has been fiddled with for dramatic purposes, Dr. Koster was real.
- Dr. Karl Henry Koster (Flender 124) “I was brought up to believe in democracy and to believe that you have to be willing to fight if you want to preserve that democracy. As for helping the Jews, I didn’t feel any particular responsibility for Jews.
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Karl Koster was a Danish surgeon who was deeply involved with the Rescue of the Danish Jews in October 1943. Biography. Karl Koster was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and he became a surgeon and a hospital director. He had two children, including Henrik Koster, a Danish Resistance fighter.
