NIGHTINGALE MEDAL
RED CROSS AWARD TO NURSE (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, June 22. The International Red Cross has awarded its Florence Nightingale Medal to a Danish nurse, Miss Elen Christensen, for her war work in helping to smuggle into Sweden 2000 Jews who were fleeing from the Gestapo. Nurse Christensen, a theatre sister in the Copenhagen Hospital, went underground in July, 1844, to devote her, skill to the treatment of sick and injured members of the Danish Resistance Movement, and of British paratroopers who had landed in Denmark.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27074, 24 June 1953, Page 2
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