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ESCAPE FROM THE HOLOCAUST?
THE FATE OF JEWS IN FINLAND AND OTHER SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES
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ESCAPE FROM THE HOLOCAUST?
THE FATE OF JEWS IN FINLAND AND OTHER SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES
June 17, 2008
Cosponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and
Thanks to Scandinavia (New York)
American-Scandinavian Foundation (New York)
National Archives of Finland
University of Tampere
Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University
09:00am-09:15am Welcome and Opening Remarks
Walter Reich, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, George Washington University; former director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Leslie D. Simon, former Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center; member of the Board of Governors of the American Jewish Committee
09:15am-10:00am Keynote:
Ambassador James E. Goodby, The Brookings Institution/Hoover Institution
10:00am-10:30am Coffee Break
10:30am-12:30pm Panel 1 – The Scandinavian Countries and the Holocaust
Chaired by Walter Reich, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
“Scandinavian Countries: on the Sidelines of the Holocaust?”
Professor Henrik Meinander, University of Helsinki
”The Fate of the Jews in the Other Scandinavian Counties:
Sweden, Denmark, Norway”
Professor Emeritus Sune Persson, University of Gothenburg
“The Holocaust in Bulgaria: Balkan Finland? Balkan
Denmark? A Comparative Approach”
Steven F. Sage, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Commentator: Meredith Hindley, Adjunct Professor, American University
12:30pm-02:00pm Lunch Break
02:00pm-04:00pm Panel 2 – Finland and the Holocaust
Chaired by Samuel F. Wells, Associate Director, Woodrow Wilson Center
"Why did Finland Escape from the Holocaust?”
Assoc. Professor Hannu Rautkallio, University of Tampere
“The Position of the Jews of Finland in the War of 1939-1944”
Rony Smolar, Chairman, The Helsinki Jewish Congregation
“Deportations and the Exchange of Jewish POW´s with
Germany”
Jussi Nuorteva, Director General, National Archives of Finland
Commentator: Carl Modig, Program Coordinator, International Archival Programs Division, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum
4:00pm-5:00pm Closing Address
Chaired by Michael Haltzel, Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic
Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
“The Position of Finland Before, During and After WW II”
Ambassador Max Jakobson (ret.)
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