Miracle Across the Sound

Two years after Denmark’s occupation, Danish Jews, unlike elsewhere in Europe, remain free. But that is about to change. Miracle Across The Sound weaves together inspiring history with a touching romance. Fleming Lund, a twenty-year old Jewish college student, has recently come to faith in Yeshua, the one his next door neighbor and former fiancée, Liesel, calls Jesus. The couple has not spoken since Liesel ended their engagement a year and a half before. Then one midnight both witness their neighbors’ arrest. Amidst a crumbling puppet government, the hatred spewing from Liesel’s Nazi-brother, Aldur, and the growing hostility from Sol Lund, Flem’s father, the two make plans to marry. Sol sees Flem’s faith as repudiation of his Jewishness. Flem disagrees—his worshiping the Jewish Messiah makes him more Jewish. But embittered, Sol Lund blames Katlev, the old fisherman who once studied to be a rabbi, then fled Germany under mysterious circumstances, for his only son’s conversion. When Berlin’s plan to round up Denmark’s Jews at the start of Rosh Hashanah leaks out, wedding plans get postponed. The little known amazing history of over 7,000 Danish Jews, first hidden, then smuggled in fishing boats by neighbors and total strangers across the Sound to freedom in Sweden over the month of October of 1943 is the heart of this story. Miracle Across The Sound is a true love story on many levels, including the sacrificial love of a nation for its citizens. It’s a story also about miracles, the greatest of which, for Flem, occurs shortly after the war ends, when his father’s stony heart finally breaks.