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Preben Munch-Nielsen was born to a Protestant family in a small Danish fishing village, Snekkersten.
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He was only 14 when German troops occupied Denmark in 1940. Preben soon became a courier in the Danish resistance movement, and when the Nazis began hunting down the Danish Jews in October 1943, he like so many other Danes decided to help.
Again and again he risked his life by hiding Jewish refugees in churches and houses near the shore.
He led them to fishing boats which took them across the sea to neutral Sweden and safety. Preben Munch-Nielsen himself had to take refuge in Sweden in November 1943. He returned to Denmark in May 1945.
Still alive today, Preben Munch-Nielsen is a successful Danish businessman who was honored for his wartime heroics by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
During an interview with Lesley Pearl, The Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, in 1995 he emphasized that the Danish Jews were considered neighbors, friends, schoolmates and nothing els