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Republic of Karelia. This is part of a project to document the Soviet Jewish POWs that died in Finland during WWII. The original list was the project of the researcher Serah Beizer. Additional information was added from the Finnish National Archives database on WWII POWs (https://kronos.narc.fi/fkrieg/fkrieg.html) as well as the Russian Military Archives at https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ The full Russian language information is provided in the Comments Section of every entry in order to assist the researchers.