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Kim Malthe-Bruun
Danish resistance member
Kim Malthe-Bruun (born Kim Friis-Hansen, 8 July – 6 April ) was a Canadian-born seaman and a member of the Danish resistance executed by the German occupying power.
Kim malthe bruun biography of christopher jackson When he wrote this entry at Copenhagen's Vestre Prison in March of , Kim Malthe-Bruun was twenty-one, and for the past three months he had been detained and tortured in various cells in Nazi-occupied Denmark with two other members of the Danish resistance.Biography
He was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and baptized in St. George's church.[1] At the age of nine, Kim, his six-year-old sister Ruth, and his mother moved back to Denmark where she was originally from. He grew up a farmhand, but by the time he was seventeen, he had become a merchant seaman.
When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark, he joined the Danish resistance movement at the age of He used his skills as a sailor to transport arms for the resistance.
On 19 December , Kim was arrested by the Gestapo in an apartment on Classen Street with two friends.
Kim malthe bruun biography of christopher columbus Kim Malthe-Bruun was born in Fort Saskatchewan, Canada in July His mother was from Denmark and in the family moved back to Europe. Malthe-Bruun was only sixteen when the German Army invaded Denmark. He became a merchant seaman and in he joined the Danish Resistance.He was unarmed and carrying his own identification papers. He was sent to the Vestre Fængsel Prison soon after his arrest. The first cell he stayed in was Cell , in the German Section.[citation needed]
On 15 January he received royal permission to change his last name to his mother's maiden name, Malthe-Bruun.[1][citation needed]
On Wednesday, 21 February, Kim was sent to the Police Headquarters for questioning.
He did not return to Vestre until Wednesday, 28 February. The next day he was placed in solitary confinement and forbidden to write letters.[citation needed]
In a letter to his girlfriend, he stated the cells he had been in so far:
- 19 December – 2 February , Cell
- 2 February , at 8 o'clock - Cell (he called a "dark cell")
- 7 February - 11 February - Frøslev
- 12 February - 11 March - Cells , , , , and (in Vestre Fængsel)
- 1 March - 2 March - Cell
- 5 March - 12 March - Cell 50 (Police Headquarters)
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- Cell 37 (Police Headquarters)
On 6 April , Kim Malthe-Bruun was executed in Ryvangen.[citation needed]
After his death
On 11 June Malthe-Bruun's remains were recovered in Ryvangen.[1]
On 29 August Malthe-Bruun and other victims of the occupation were given a state funeral in the memorial park founded at the execution and burial site in Ryvangen where his remains had been recovered.
Bishop Hans Fuglsang-Damgaard led the service with participation from the royal family, the government and representatives of the resistance movement.[1][2]
After the war his mother published a book about him titled Heroic Heart: The Diary and Letters of Kim Malthe-Bruun.
It contains his diary entries and many of his letters home to both her and his girlfriend Hanne.[citation needed]
In the afterword to her work of historical fiction, Number the Stars, Lois Lowry likened the character Peter Neilsen, a resistance member, to Kim, possibly for his courage against the Nazis.
She also wrote of Kim "seeing the quiet determination in his boyish eyes made me determined, too, to tell his story, and that of all the Danish people who shared his dreams." She ends the afterword with a quote to his mother from one of his last letters from jail.[3]
A Danish documentary about Kim Malthe-Bruun was made in [4]