“They were told that fishing boats would be waiting to take them to Sweden.” During a three-week period in October 1943, 300 fishing boats smuggled out more than 7,200 Jews and 500 family ...

A boat named Thor, one of the fishing boats used to rescue Danish ... up on the docks to rescue Jews and take them to neutral Sweden. In about three weeks, the Danes ferried more than 7,000 ...

Kliger said the effort rescued 95 percent of the Jewish population of Denmark, sending Jews to Sweden in groups of 10 and 15 at a time aboard fishing boats like the Gerda III. By some counts ...

The sinking of a dangerously overcrowded fishing boat carrying hundreds of migrants ... tighten asylum rules and increase deportations. Even Sweden, which welcomed the highest number of refugees ...

The mystery of a North Sea message in a bottle found on a Swedish island after 47 years has been solved by BBC Scotland News.

At the most basic level, Gothenburg is Sweden’s second city ... with towering shipping cranes and whitewashed fishing boats alongside design shops, museums and lustworthy restaurants.