Leni Yahil, an Israeli historian, is the author of the first authoritative, detailed and evidence-based account of the rescue of the Danish Jews, based on her steadfast research using all the available resources available during her study in Denmark (which became her doctoral dissertation. ) While certain aspects of her account were subject to debate among a variety of subsequent interpretations by historians (as a function of later archival revelations), by and large her book is the landmark for all serious scholars of the topic.