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Perhaps you've not heard of the Elsinore Sewing Club.

It was Denmark 1943. Although the country was under Nazi occupation, Denmark's 8,000 strong Jewish population had yet come under attack.

However orders arrived for deportation. I don't think the full implications were widely understood but they were evidently seen as ominous.

People from all walks of Danish society joined in a rescue mission. Jews were warned to go into immediate hiding. Volunteers even worked painstakingly through telephone directories for names that looked Jewish to warn the people concerned.

The "Sewing Club" was a code-named resistance group. Elsinore in Denmark is only about 3 km across the sea from Sweden - Hamlet would have been able to see Sweden from the castle walls.

In small boats, the Sewing Club carried over 90% of the Jewish community of Denmark to safety on the Swedish shore.