Finland and the Holocaust: The Rescue of Finland's Jews

Author: Hannu Rautkallio

The story of Finland and the Holocaust is not widely known. Finland escaped being drawn into the arena of Nazi racial politics due to the unambiguous stance taken by the Finnish government as well as individual Finnish officials.

At a ceremony held in Helsinki’s synagogue on Finland’s Independence Day in 1944, Marshall Mannerheim, the Finnish leader, was praised for the “firm stand” he had taken “in the fatal hour for Finnish Jewry.” The Marshall replied, “I have done nothing more than what every person with a true sense of justice would be duty-bound to do.”

Holocaust Library Publication

Paperback 

268 pages