The Plan to Rescue Finnish Jews in 1944

Muir, Simo

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“…Marraskuussa 1942 Suomesta luovutettiin saksalaisille kahdeksan Itävallan juutalaista pakolaista, ja tapaus herätti suomenjuutalaisissa suurta pelkoa karkotuksista kuolemanleireille. Pelko hälveni vasta välirauhan myötä syyskuussa 1944 (Muir 2016).…”

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”Mustan miehen musiikkia”

Muir¹

2022

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”Black Man’s Music”: Name Changes and Identity Negotiation among Finnish Jewish Jazz Musicians during 1920s – 1940s Many name changes of Jewish performing artists in Finland during the 1920s–1940s raise questions about the status of musicians from ethnic minorities and the boundaries of entertainment industry. In this article, I examine, on the one hand, the creating of an image of a ”Finnish” or ”American” jazz musician by name changes, and on the other hand, the concealing of one’s own ethnic origins in an occasionally xenophobic and antisemitic atmosphere. I also analyse how they have negotiated their musician identity in terms of Finnishness, Finnish Swedishness, Jewishness and African American jazz. As examples I use the five siblings of the Manulkin family and Jaakko Furman in Helsinki because of their prominent position and because in their cases the discussed phenomena are clearly visible. The Manulkin siblings took American-style names on their own initiative and Furman a Finnish name at his employer’s requirement. In the Manulkin case the name changes allowed them to create a musician image in harmony with the genre they represented. Their name changes also illustrate how Jewish musicians tried to adapt to the pressure of the time, at the same time wanting to preserve the integrity of their ethnic and cultural identity. When negotiating his identity in interviews, Furman does not bring up his Jewish background as he does with his identity as a Finnish Swedish speaker. His ethnic background is only reflected on the interviewers’ initiative when discussing the prominent role of Jewish musicians in the field of jazz and the xenophobic atmosphere of the Second World War. In interviews, Furman identifies himself more with Swedish speaking swing musicians than as a representative of Jewish jazz musicians in Finland or as a member of the Jewish community. He emphasises how jazz music provided Finnish Jewish musicians with a more tolerant community and atmosphere that rose above discrimination.

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2022

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“…The substantial works of Steven Koblik (1989) provide us with a detailed view of different phases of Swedish attempts to help European Jews. The most recent research of Simo Muir (2016) exemplifies the cooperation within the Finnish and Swedish Jewish leadership after Germany's takeover of Hungary and the appearance of potential danger for Finnish…”

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Swedish interventions in the tragedy of the Jews of Slovakia

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Nižňanský

2016

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This article describes a largely unknown Swedish effort to intervene in deportations of Jews of Slovakia between 1942 and 1944. Swedish officials and religious leaders used their diplomatic correspondence with the Slovak government to extract some Jewish individuals and later on the whole Jewish community of Slovakia from deportations by their government and eventually by German officials. Despite the efforts of the Swedish Royal Consulate in Bratislava, the Swedish archbishop, Erling Eidem, and the Slovak consul, Bohumil Pissko, in Stockholm, and despite the acts taken by some Slovak ministries, the Slovak officials, including the president of the Slovak Republic, Jozef Tiso, revoked further negotiations in the autumn of 1944. However, the negotiations between Slovakia and Sweden created a scope for actions to protect some Jewish individuals which were doomed to failure because of the political situation. Nevertheless, this plan and the previous diplomatic interventions are significant for a description of the almost unknown Swedish and Slovak efforts to save the Jews of Slovakia. Repeated Swedish offers to take in Jewish individuals and later the whole community could well have prepared the way for larger rescues. These never occurred, given the Slovak interest in deporting their own Jewish citizens and later the German occupation of Slovakia.

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“Mother Rachel and Her Children”: Artistic Expressions in Yiddish and Early Commemoration of the Holocaust in Finland

Muir

2018

East European Jewish Affairs

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The Plan to Rescue Finnish Jews in 1944

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

”Mustan miehen musiikkia”

”Mustan miehen musiikkia”

Swedish interventions in the tragedy of the Jews of Slovakia

“Mother Rachel and Her Children”: Artistic Expressions in Yiddish and Early Commemoration of the Holocaust in Finland

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