As a young chef at the Friars Club in Beverly Hill's ( before Wulfgang Puck) where I was cooking for the stars I walked away with many lessons having 'lived' with 700 Jewish Families for three years.
One of the best lessons learned, was that everybody got to have ' a story ' !
They would say to me " We know what your story is !" I had no clue what they were talking about...
And for the fist time did I learn of how the Danish people helped 99 % of their Jewish population escape the Naxi's to neutral Sweden.
It wasn't untill I got back to my native Denmark years later that I confronted my father and 'demanded' to know what all this talk about what the Danes did for their Jewish countrymen doing world war 11.
For 23 years my dad had told no one about our familys contribution to rescueing the Jews from the extengtion in the Nazi concetration camps. He said" Let's try to forget and get on with our lifes"
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