Judy Glickman Lauder: Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish Exception

The extraordinary experiences of ordinary people—their suffering and their unimaginable bravery—are the subject of Judy Glickman Lauder’s remarkable photographs. Beyond the Shadows responds to the world’s looking the other way as the Nazis took power and their hate-fueled nationalism steadily turned to mass murder. In the context of the horror of the Holocaust, it also tells the uplifting story of how the citizens and leadership of Denmark, under occupation and at tremendous risk to themselves, defied the Third Reich to transport the country’s Jews to safety in Sweden. Glickman Lauder captures the intensity of the death camps in dark and expressive photographs, telling of a world turned upside down, and, in contrast, the redemptive and uplifting story of the “Danish exception.” Including texts by Holocaust scholars Michael Berenbaum, Judith S. Goldstein, and Herbert Pundik, and a previously unpublished poem by survivor Elie Wiesel, Beyond the Shadows demonstrates passionately what hate can lead to, and what may be done to stand in its path.