With Jew-hatred spiking throughout Europe, Kesher Israel, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood, hosted Joachim Holger Waldemar Christian, a Danish prince, to speak about his great-grandfather’s role in protecting Jews in Denmark during the Holocaust.

His great-grandfather, King Christian X, defied Hitler, making Denmark one of only two Nazi-occupied countries to oppose the Nazi leader. The king also paid for the country’s Jews to flee to Sweden in 1943 after the Nazis began full planning of their efforts to exterminate Jews.

Some 7,200 Jews and 700 of their non-Jewish relatives were saved , per the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. (One of the Danish fishing boats used in that rescue is on view at a Holocaust museum in St. Petersburg, Fla.)

Rabbi Hyim Sh

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