Is it right to do wrong to do right?

I already knew a bit about the heroic actions from the Danes to save almost all Jewish people living in Denmark. I read the book ‘The Helsingør Sewing Club’ by Ella Gyland and while reading that book I started googling and was amazed by what I read.

In this book we follow Else, she is American but has Danish grandparents, and works in Dr. Bohr’s Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. She is a strong willed woman but has a hard time standing up against one of her seniors. She is being treated as a secretary while she is in fact a Dr. in physics.

In her boardinghouse she meets Hemming, a quiet manual laborer who, together with her friend Laila, give her some tips to stand up for herself. Hemming and Else slowly become friends, but in Else’s mind it cannot be, a manual laborer worker and an Dr., that is not how it should be. I can see that in those days it was not easy for a woman who had studied to find a partner she was equal too.

Hemming who is full into the resistance tries to stay low-profile, but he cannot help that he befriends Else and is more involved with her than he should be for his own sake. When Else is drawn into the resistance by her friend Laila she starts printing resistance newspapers in the basement of her office, she learned using the mimeograph machine when her senior asked her to duplicate his reports for him, so now her knowledge of the machine comes in very handy.

A historical fact, which took place in October 1943, the leaking of the imminent Nazi raid. Rabbi Melchior, a rabbi at Copenhagen's main synagogue, who interrupted a service celebrating Jewish New Year to urge the congregation to go into hiding and to spread the word to other Jews. This historical fact combined with the story of Else, Laila and Hemming is very well done.

If you want to know more about the Danes during the WW2 I can recommend this information on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark_in_World_War_II

The book is filled with Danish words, as a person understanding Norwegian I did not have a problem with understanding this, in the back of the book a syllabus can be found with the translation and pronunciation of these Danish words.

I have enjoyed this book by Sarah Sundin very much and I am curious to see any future books by her.

Characters = 9 | Atmosphere = 9 | Writing style = 9 | Plot = 9 | Intrigue = 9 | Logic = 9 | Enjoyment = 9 | Score 9.00 = 5 stars