A Way Through the Sea (21 page)

Part of the reason so many escaped from Denmark was because everyone agreed that they would not let their friends and neighbors be captured and sent to prison or death. That had already happened in other parts of Europe. All at once, everyone in the country knew what they had to do. They weren’t afraid to do the right thing, no matter what the risk.

Just like Moses. One writer has said that if the Danish rescue of the Jews had happened during Bible times, it would have been included as another chapter in the Old Testament. Who knows? The story does remind us of the Exodus account, when God’s people escaped through the Red Sea. God was working in special ways then, and again in 1943.