Unfamiliar to me was also the custom of carefully mentioning the home parish of the dead. I wondered in confusion if the family dog had been buried in the same grave, but of course Rambo was where they (had) lived:
Particularly sobering was the mass grave for Finnish infants evacuated from Rovaniemi. We searched the church; there were lots of leaflets in several languages on the history and architecture of the church but no information on the refugees and how they had come there.
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Any idea what killed the kids after they were evacuated?
Diphteria, according to Finska krigsbarn.
According to Tiedon Värikas Maailma, 1943–46 saw the last outbreak of epidemic diphteria in Finland, after that mass vaccination extinguished the disease.
Jag förstår inte hur Emilia kan stå före sin make fast han dog 50 år före henne...
Min gissning, utgående från dess fräscha skick, är att stenen tillkommit i samband med sonens begravning, möjligen ersättande en tidigare sten med namnen i omvänd ordning.
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