A Jewish report reaching here today from Finland states that on the whole the position of the approximately 2,000 Jewish inhabitants of that country has not deteriorated in spite of the anti-Jewish campaign conducted there by new publications started with financial support from Germany. The scarcity of food, however, is being exploited by anti-Semitic agitators in a campaign against Jewish small traders, which is meeting with considerable response among certain elements of the Finnish population.
Jews are serving in the Finnish armed forces, and many of them have fallen on the Russian front, the report says. No discrimination is practiced against Jews in the army. Gen. Mannerheim and other officers of the Finnish military command strictly adhere to the principle of equal treatment of soldiers irrespective of their race or religion, the report emphasizes.
The Jewish community in Sweden, under the leadership of Chief Rabbi Ehrenpreis, has taken over most of the Jewish cultural work for the Scandinavian countries which was formerly directed from Copenhagen. It has enlisted many Jewish families in Sweden to act as foster parents for Jewish children from Finland. It has seen to it that Jewish children are included in the transports under the Finnish-Swedish relief program. It is also taking direct care of thirty Jewish children from Germany scheduled to leave for Palestine under the Youth Immigration Plan, but unable to do so because no more vessels are leaving from here for Palestine. It is assumed that these thirty children will remain in Sweden for the duration of the war.
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