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- From: ljmorly@polaris.utu.fi (Laura Johanna Manninen)
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 12:14:16
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- I already posted this separately to SCJ, but thought that those of you
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- ZICHRONEIHEM LIVRACHA
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- Exactly 50 years ago, on November 6, 1942, five foreign citizens of Jewish
- origin accompanied with three family members were deported from Finland
- on S/S Hohenhoern and handed over to Gestapo in Tallinn, Estonia. Below
- their names and additional information as shown is the postwar Finnish
- State Police archives:[1]
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- * * HUPPERT, HEINRICH, traveling salesman, b. 26 XI 1896.
- * Ex Austian citizen. Landed 10 VIII 1938 in Helsinki.
- * * Together with one Nathan Maischlich, established a
- * toy-manufacturing business in Helsinki. According to
- * * the intelligence transmitted to the Valpo (Finnish
- * State Police -LM), was convicted several times in
- * * Vienna of informing falsely to others, embezzlement,
- * defamation of character, etc. Together with Kasimir
- * * Rodziewics, a Pole, opened up a second-hand store, which,
- * according to information reaching the Valpo, operated as
- * * a veritable rumor mill. At the end of 1940, the Valpo was
- * informed that Huppert showed a hostile attitude toward
- * * the Finnish Government. On 26 V 1941, the criminal police
- * arrested him in the harbor area of suspicion of smuggling
- * * activity. On 12 VIII 1941, sentenced to a fine of Mk 6,000
- * by the Criminal Court of Helsinki in violation of rationing
- * * regulations. Arrested 26 VI 1941 on suspicion of engaging
- * in practices endangering the security of the state and
- * * taken into preventive custody. Released from custody 26 X
- * 1942 for deportation. Interior Ministry issued deportation
- * * order 26 X 1942 and at th same time ordered him to be held
- * in custody until he could be deported. Deported 6 XI 1942.
- * * A serious incident involving Huppert took place in addition
- * in the said store when a Polish national, Marian Skawara,
- * * tried to kill him with a knife; at the Valpo, the latter
- * was suspected of being a secret agent of either "Germany
- * * or the Bolsheviks".
- *
- * * KOLLMANN, GEORG, medical student, b. 19 XI 1912 in Vienna,
- * former Austrian citizen. Arrived in Finland 29 VII 1938.
- * * When interrogated, on 14 VI 1939, gave misleading information
- * about himself. Worked as an examiner of imported goods for
- * * the Malli-Aitta company and while so employed, according to
- * information obtained by the Valpo, embezzled Mk 23,000, for
- * * which reason he lost his job. Taken into preventive custody
- * 17 XII 1939. Interior Ministry denied him any extention of
- * * his recidence permit on 15 I 1940 because he neglected to
- * renew the permit that expired 15 V 1939 and failed to report
- * * his address. Released form custody 1 I 1940. On 26 X 1942,
- * Interior Ministry rejected his application for an extension
- * * of his residence permit and ordered Kollmann to leave the
- * country immediately after being notified of this. Arrested
- * * 29 X 1942 on Suursaari for deportation. Deported 6 XI 1942.
- *
- * * KORN, HANS ROBERT MARTIN, technician, b. 26 VI 1919 at Bielitz,
- * former Austrian citizen. Arrived in Finland 15 X 1940 as a
- * * volunteer to join the Sisu unit, in which, according to infor-
- * mation obtained by the Valpo, he engaged in agitation. Arrested
- * * 2 V 1941 in Helsinki as an alien vagrant and for violating
- * regulations governing the crossing of the national boundary.
- * * In the summer of 1941, convicted fo two robberies and two
- * swindles, sentenced to 10 months' inprisonment and loss of
- * * civil rights for three years past his prison term. As learned
- * by the Valpo, he had been previously convicted in Germany of
- * * criminal offences. Interior Ministry issued 21 IV 1942 a
- * deportation decree and ordered him to be held in custody until
- * * he could be deported. Deported 6 XI 1942.
- *
- * * KOPELOVSKY, ELIAS, lumber dealer, b. 22 IX 1882 at Ilgen,
- * former Latvian citizen. Arrived in Finland 24 VII 1940.
- * * According to information obtained by the Valpo, spoke in
- * an unfriendly way during the summer of 1941 about Finland
- * * and its government and in general made scornful remarks
- * about Finnish affairs. According to information received
- * * from Estonia, Kopelovsky was considered to be a communist.
- * Interior Ministry on 26 X 1942 rejected his application
- * * for a residence permit extension and ordered Kopelovsky
- * to leave the country immediately after being notified of
- * * this decision. Taken into custody 29 X 1942 to await
- * deportation. Deported on 6 XI 1942.
- * *
- * SZYBILSKIJ, HANS EDUARD, commercial traveler, b. 29 VIII
- * * 1907 at Alberfeld, former German citizen. Fled from Germany
- * to Sweden 20 II 1937. Banished from Sweden 6 VI 1938 and
- * * escorted to Germany, whence after three days, however, under
- * the threat of incarceration on a concentration camp traveled
- * * to Copenhagen and from there after a month on to Oslo. After
- * a two-month stay in Norway, moved to Sweden, having obtained
- * * an entry permit valid for two months. Arrived in Finland on
- * 1 XII 1938 as a sales agent for the "Estema Konfektions"
- * * company; admitted on condition that he return within two
- * months to Sweden. Failed to obtain a permit to return to
- * * Sweden, so stayed in Finland. Szybilskij's correspondence
- * sent abroad from Sweden aroused suspicions among Swedish autho-
- * * rities that he was engaging in espionage; these suspicions
- * strenthened by the discovery in his living quarters of aerial
- * * photographs. Taken into preventive custody 17 XII 1938, released
- * 4 VI 1940. Interior Ministry rejected his application for a
- * * residence permit extension and ordered Szybilskij to leave the
- * country immediately after being notified of the rejection.
- * * Arrested on Suursaari 29 X 1942 to await deportation. Deported
- * 6 XI 1942.
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- Of the five extradicted Jewish refugees and the three family members
- who accompanied them voluntarily, only one survived, namely George
- Kollmann. Kollmann's wife and child, who chose to go along with them,
- perished in a concentration camp. The first sign of life from him was
- received in Finland on July 19, 1945. A telegram from him read: "I am
- alive, liberated from a concentratin camp, wife and child dead, whenever
- possible contact my brother and send me his address. Best thanks, Georg
- Kollmann." [2] A year later he wrote: "As if by miraculous change, I
- have survived, and I was liberated by the American Army here, and I am
- now living in Austria. The loss of my wife and my little one touches me
- deeply, and I shall probably never get over it."[3]
-
- The extradiction of November 6, 1942, was the only one involving
- Jewish refugees from Central Europe ever to take place in Finland,
- although other aliens living in Finland were handed over to the
- Gestapo at a later date.
-
- [These quotes are from _Finland And The Holocaust -- The Rescue Of
- Finland's Jews_ by Hannu Rautkallio (Library of Congress Catalogue
- Card Number 87-81214; ISBN: 0-89604-120-4 [cloth]/0-89604-121-2
- [softcover]). References below.]
-
- As a Finn, I would like to apologize this unnecessary and sad incident
- in the Finnish history. The Finnish Jewry fought together with other
- Finns against the Red Army. 22 of them lost their lives for Finland.
-
- Laura Manninen
- University of Turku
- Finland
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- [1] Copy. P.M. "On Central European Jewish refugees deported 6 XI 1942."
- Sotavankileirien tutkimuskeskus. Ilm. pvk. I, pp. 107-108
- [2] Georg Kollmann 19 VII 1945, "Heikinkatu 14 (Suomi-Finland)".
- Sotavankileirien tutkimuskeskus. Ilm. pvk. 1388. I, p. 65.
- Military Archives.
- [3] Georg Kollmann from Vienna to M. Stiller 20 VI 1946.
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- "They will say of me, 'In the LORD alone are righteousness and
- strength.' All who have raged against him will come to him and
- be put to shame. But in the LORD all the descendants of Israel
- will be found righteous and will exult." Yeshaya 45:24-25
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- "Achen Ata El mistater Elohei Israel Moshia." Yeshaya 45:15
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