27 students and guests gathered on Thursday, November 6, to commemorate  the eight deported Jews , who were handed over to Gestapo in Helsinki on Nov 6, 1942, and taken to Auschwitz. The ”stumbling stone” dedicated to Hans Szybilski (Installed in 2022) is on the street outside of the address Vartiovuorenkatu 1 in Turku, which became his last home before the deportation. He and 6 others were murdered in Auschwitz. The evening continued in Auditorum Theologicum. The main speaker of the evening was Dr. Mercédesz Czimbalmos (ÅAU), a leading expert on contemporary antisemitism in Finland.

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