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The photograph Queen Ingrid posed for hid that the children were never orphans

The photograph Queen Ingrid posed for hid that the children were never orphans

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A Danish queen posed with Greenlandic children - but the photograph hid the families they actually had. Who were they?

The photograph Queen Ingrid posed for hid that the children were never orphans

In this episode, we trace the plan, the people and the policies behind a 1951 program that moved Greenlandic children to Denmark. We follow how the children were selected, transported, placed and silenced, and ask what that photograph and the choices around it really documented.

Person: Helene Thiesen
Event: Little Danes Experiment
Date: May 1951
Location: MS Disko; Fedgaarden; Nuuk
Country: Denmark/Greenland

- Planners specified children around six years old, no impairments, and crucially labeled as orphans to justify removal.
- Greenlandic priests were tasked with finding candidates and discovered there were not enough actual orphans.
- Twenty-two children boarded the MS Disko; only six were true orphans and one was nine years old.
- After arrival, the children were quarantined for the entire summer at Fedgaarden where Queen Ingrid posed for the photograph.
- With an unfinished orphanage in Nuuk, authorities placed the children in Danish foster homes and enforced Danish-only language rules.

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