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Dina Poljakoff
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Dina Poljakoff was a Finnish nurse. Despite being Jewish, she was offered the Iron Cross by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Photo of Dina Poljakoff
Photo of Dina Poljakoff
Leo Skurnik
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Leo Skurnik was a Finnish physician, a medical officer in the Finnish Army and one of the three Finnish Jews who were proposed to be awarded the Iron Cross by Nazi Germany during World War II but refu
Dina Poljakoff
…German patients, to the point that she was nominated for the Iron Cross. She was one of three Finnish Jews to be offered the award; like the other two (Leo Skurnik and Salomon Klass), she did not accept the award. Unlike the other two, she did not ask for her name to be withdrawn from the recipient list, and on…
Skurnik in 1940
Skurnik in 1940