Jewish organizations here are making an attempt to secure residential permits in Sweden for twenty-three German Jews who are interned in Finland as refugees by order of the Gestapo. A group of thirty such refugees has already been admitted here from Finland.
The Jewish refugees in Finland were first sent by the Gestapo to compulsory labor at Petsamo and later interned in an unknown place. The Finnish authorities, however, intervened and succeeded in taking the refugees from the Gestapo by interning them on Hoglan Island in the Gulf of Finland from where they will now be permitted to leave for Sweden if the Swedish Government will permit them to enter the country.
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