Remembering Karelia

"In June 1944, after two wars, the Finnish region of Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union. As a result, the Finnish population of Karelia, nearly eleven percent of the Finnish population, was moved across the new border. The war years, the loss of territory, the resettlement of the Karelian population, and the reparations that had to be paid to the Allied Forces, were experiences shared by most people living in Finland between 1939 and the late 1950s. Using a family's memoirs, the author shows how these traumatic events affected people in all spheres of their lives and how these events are…