Two young Danes are studying at the Hebrew University this year under a scholarship established by an American group to honor the Danish people for their rescue of Denmark’s Jewish population from the Nazis in 1943. The students are Ulla Graham, 25, and Mogens Reimer Jensen, 21, both from Copenhagen.
Their scholarships were awarded by “Tribute to the Danes,” an organization founded in New York by Dr. Elias L. Gechman, a Russian-born Jew who survived Nazi concentration camps and is presently practicing medicine in New York. Gechman helped set up a scholarship selection committee at a meeting in Copenhagen two years ago. It consists of 12 Danish personalities representing the wartime resistance movement, the Danish Government, academic circles and Danish-Israel friendship groups. A group of 40 prominent Americans and Israelis, former Premier David Ben Gurion among the latter, are sponsors of the project. Miss Granam is a student of Judaica and French at the Hebrew University. Jensen is attending the University’s preparatory year course.
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