It contains his diary entries and many of his letters home to both her and his girlfriend Hanne. In the afterword to her work of historical fiction, Number the Stars, Lois Lowry likened the character Peter Neilsen, a resistance member, to Kim, possibly for his courage against the Nazis. She also wrote of Kim "seeing the quiet determination in his boyish eyes made me determined, too, to tell his story, and that of all the Danish people who shared his dreams." She ends the afterword with a quote to his mother from one of his last letters from jail. A Danish documentary about Kim Malthe-Bruun was made in 2009. References Sources External links 1923 births 1945 deaths Danish resistance members Canadian sailors Danish sailors Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany Canadian people of Danish descent Deaths by firearm in Denmark Canadian people executed by Nazi Germany Danish people executed by Nazi Germany People executed by Nazi Germany by firing squad Grut Hansen family