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charliehall
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Akuperma is correct. The Finnish General Mannerheim (later President of Finland) defied Hitler and lived to tell the tale. Nazis had to put up with fighting alongside Finnish Jews who even had a tent synagogue on the front lines — you can find a famous photograph of that synagogue on the internet. Mannerheim also refused to allow the Finnish Army to commit war crimes by attacking Russian civilian targets during the war.

There is a Jewish school of some sort in Helsinki; I read in the Jerusalem Post a few years ago that it had over a hundred students and a lot were from families who had recently moved there from Russia or were Israeli expats.

Good luck! May you help the community in Finland to thrive.