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id you know that Finland mostly protected its Jewish population
from the Holocaust, despite its alliance with Nazi Germany?
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about the Jews in Finland before and during WWII.

Monday, February 12 at 7 p.m.

The Unique History of the Jews in
Finland During World War II

Presented by the Finlandia Foundation of Michigan and
supported by a grant from the Finlandia Foundation National.
RSVP by February 8.

Sharon Franklin-Rahkonen, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor
of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a
Finlandia Foundation National Lecturer of the Year.

Monday, February 26 at 7 p.m.

Cultivated Silence: Historical Trauma,
Memory, and Famine in Soviet Ukraine

Matthew Pauly, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of History at
Michigan State University and author of Breaking the Tongue:
Language, Education and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923-34.

Thursday, March 22 at 7 p.m.

Forced into Genocide: Memoirs of
an Armenian Soldier in the Ottoman
Turkish Army

Adrienne Alexanian is an educator and recipient of
the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

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famine that killed millions. Explore this tragic history and how the
truth was suppressed by the Soviets, then memorialized by post-
Soviet Ukraine.

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resenting a unique account of the Armenian genocide, the memoir
Forced into Genocide was edited by Adrienne Alexanian from her
father Yervant Edward Alexanian’s handwritten chronicles. As an
Armenian conscript in the Turkish army, Yervant was an unwilling
eyewitness to the massacre and dislocation of his family and
countrymen in Ottoman Turkey during WWI.

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n the late 1920s, Soviet leaders began their struggle for ﬁnal
control of the Ukrainian countryside by conﬁscating the peasantry’s
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This action contributed to the outbreak of a devastating

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