A pink princess frock and other material memories from a historical past

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• Renja Suominen-Kokkonen

Abstrakti

This article addressed the problematic and politics of memory in relation to a difficult stage in the history of Finland. The material considered here consists of material items of memory of German and Hungarian and their Finnish-born wives and children were interned in Finland from 1944 to 1946. The difficulty of remembering and the dimensions of oblivion at the state level are discussed through an analysis of the objects.