Let Him Go

“Sold, 21 Jews to the Gestapo for 600 kr.” That was the headline on the front page of EkstraBladet in 1945. The article was about two informers who had informed the Gestapo that a Jewish escape to Sweden would take place from the Chemical Factory at Amager Strandvej. Those Jews included two-year-old Ib Katznelson and his family. Katznelson is the first to thoroughly analyze what happened at the Chemical Factory. Ib relates his mother’s and father’s stories, along with those of others in the camp by means of testimonies, letters, and historical documentation.