Finland, A Miracle Among Jewish Communities in Central and Eastern Europe
Joseph Gideon Bolotowsky, president of Jewish community in Helsinki 1988-2007, explains how Finland is unique among all of the Jewish communities in central and eastern Europe in that it survived World War Two intact. Unlike most any of his peers in his generation, he grew up with an intergenerational extended Jewish family.
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