Past, present and human conditions

War, persecution, deportations, separated families, flight and uncertainty – these are words and images we know all too well from the 20th century's bloody history of mass murder and tragedies, which were part of the fate of many European families for several generations. Also in Denmark, where this year marks the 80th anniversary of the flight of the Danish Jews to Sweden. An escape that for the vast majority ended in a rescue, and which has since become a story about a ray of light of humanism, helpfulness and hope that things don't always have to go from bad to worse for humanity. That it sometimes turns out that people live up to the best examples and highest ideals. That they rise up against evil and hatred and expose themselves and their loved ones to danger in order to come to the aid of the persecuted and needy. As it happened in Denmark in October 1943, and as it also unfolded in Gilleleje during some of the dramatic days and nights of October '43.

This is the theme of Samuel Rachlin's reflections not only on the experiences of history and the lessons from the past, but also on the challenges of today. Based on the atrocities of the Ukrainian war with persecution, deportations, mass killings and indescribable cruelty, he asks the question of how relevant history is for a contemporary that is blind to its own time. The Ukraine war is a reminder that history is not over and that the past is not dead, that it is not even the past, as the writer William Faulkner has said. The extensive deportations in Ukraine and forced removals of thousands of children, and the many millions of Ukrainians on the run, make Samuel include the story of his own family, who were deported to Siberia over 80 years ago. He raises the question of the indestructibility of evil as part of man's condition and man's ability to learn from history.

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