Historical and cultural problems

of northern countries and regions

 

Scientific articles

 

The population of Karelia during the occupation. 1941-1944. In concentration camps. Part II.

 

Makurov V.G.¹

 

In 1941-1944 the territory of Karelia was occupied by the Finnish army. The occupation authorities have created concentration camps, where people were placed on ethnicity. The article continues the publication of memoirs of the ex-prisoners of Finnish concentration camps during the Great Patriotic War. In total there are 15 people published memoirs and one collective letter (146 people).

Keywords: Karelia, the Great Patriotic War, occupation, concentration camps

 

¹Candidate of Science (History), Senior Researcher. Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, Petrozavodsk, Pushkinskaia str., 11, 185910.

E-mail: vasgri@onego.ru

 

References

 

1. Makurov V.G. Naselenie Karelii v usloviiakh okkupatsionnogo rezhima. 1941-1944 gg. V kontslageriakh. Chast' I [The population of Karelia during the occupation. 1941-1944. In concentration camps. Part I]. Voprosy istorii i kul'tury severnykh stran i territorii [Historical and cultural problems of northern countries and regions], 2013, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 60-80.

 

 

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