Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Nordisk Judaistik
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,1-2 (2000) 157-166
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Between 1939-44 two different wars against the USSR were imposed upon Finland. The Winter War of 1939-40 posed no ideological problems for Jewish conscripts into the Finnish army, but the Continuation War of 1941-44 did, since Finland joined the German side. The comradeship in arms with the Germans did not constitute a serious problem for the Finnish Jews in the war years, but became a problem after the war, when the extent of the Holocaust was revealed. Ca. 500 Jewish refugees arrived in Finland in the Holocaust period; when the Continuation War began, many of them were sent to labor camps in Lapland and on the Isle of Suursaari. Five refugees were deported from Finland to Estonia in October 1942; another deportation was thwarted by the Jewish community.
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