ABSTRACT
This chapter focusses on life after the ghetto, beginning with the trip through Germany and Denmark to Sweden and the few weeks of quarantine in the refugee camps of Rosöga/Strängnäs and Tylösand. It examines the return to Denmark and the subsequent problems of housing, health issues, and how to get in contact with relatives and friends abroad. The Danish law of compensation and restitution is briefly retraced, as is the precarious situation for young stateless refugees who were not within coverage of the law. The reopening service of the Copenhagen synagogue in June 1945 underlined the strong relationship between the Jews and the surrounding society; the chapter also provides a detailed reading of the repatriation of earthly remains from Theresienstadt as well as the 1946 erection of a monument for the victims. Finally, the chapter offers a few considerations about the post-war justice and the survivors’ reactions to it.
