Fanny Arnskov (born 17 April 1889) was a Danish woman who helped Jews escape deportation by Nazis during World War II (1939–1945).
[3] The organization collaborated with the Society of Jewish Women to send 300 children rescued from Nazi concentration camps to Denmark and Palestine.
[4] Arnskov coordinated with the National Board of Social Welfare and Legation Counselor Hellstedt's Director General Héjer to arrange for Sweden to accept 187 Jewish children.
[5] In September 1943, Nazi Germany planned to collect and deport Danish Jews on 1 and 2 October 1943, during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
[6] Leo Goldberger and his parents heard of the upcoming mass arrest while staying in a resort in Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark.
They did not have enough money to fund their escape, so Leo's father, Cantor Goldberger, took a train to Copenhagen to seek a means to cross the Baltic Sea to Sweden.
A Lutheran pastor, Henry Rasmussen, provided 20,000 kroner (about $3,500 US dollars) to Arnskov, who arranged for a boat to take the Goldbergers to Sweden the following night.