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Danes Worldwide Archives Contains Treasures Of Immigrant Life, Marion Marzolf
Danes Worldwide Archives Contains Treasures Of Immigrant Life, Marion Marzolf
The Bridge
A typical four-room apartment in an average Danish neighborhood in Aalborg, Denmark, houses an extraordinary treasure for those interested in their Danish roots. It looks like an ordinary apartment from the outisde, but once the door is opened by Curator Inger Bladt, it is clear that housed here are the living memories of many of the 300,000 Danes who left their homeland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to seek work, land, fortune and fate in foreign countries, mainly the U.S.