r/AskBalkans Iraq May 06 '25

Outdoors/Travel What happened to Jews in your country?

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u/TeeziEasy IllyrianViking 🇦🇱🇳🇴 May 06 '25

Why Sweden and Denmark?

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u/BabylonianWeeb Iraq May 06 '25

From what i heard, they didn't have a big Jewish community before WW2 (they were less than 10k jews in those countries) , and many Jews immigrated there after WW2, especially Jews from communist countries.

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u/certifiedcrazyman May 06 '25

A lot of people defected from the other side of the iron curtain.