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Former faculty, Ib Jorgensen visits Hopkins


Ib Jorgensen, Hopkins faculty emeritus, was a special guest in Kevin Cronin’s Holocaust classes the week of December 6th.

Ib Jorgensen, Hopkins faculty emeritus, was a special guest in Kevin Cronin’s Holocaust classes the week of December 6th. Ib, who grew up in Denmark and emigrated to the United States after World War II, became, at age 16, a member of the Danish Resistance Movement, which organized rescue operations, helping thousands of Danish Jews to safety in Sweden. Despite the Danish-German Agreement of 1940, following German occupation, which stipulated that Denmark’s 8,000 Jews would not be deported, the Nazis acted on October 1, 1943 to round up Danish Jews, but the resistance had organized a massive rescue operation in advance. Mr. Jorgensen was part of that rescue, and participated in resistance activities until the end of the war.

 

The collective heroism of the Danes in rescuing its Jewish population from the Nazis is recognized all over the world, and Hopkins students in Mr. Cronin’s history course heard a first-hand account of that heroism from Mr. Jorgensen.

 

Source: Holocaust Memorial Day program; Mansion House, Dublin, January, 2006


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