To the Bomb and Back (eBook)

Sue Saffle holds a Senior Instructorship in Virginia Tech’s Department of English. She is a winner of VT’s University Sporn Award for outstanding teaching and was inducted into the institution’s Academy of Teaching Excellence. In 2000–2001 she lived in Helsinki, where she began collecting the stories of Finland’s war children. Her articles about them have appeared in the journal Children and War and in the collection Children: The Invisible Victims of War (2008).

Illustrations

Foreword
Kai Rosnell

Introduction

(Names in quotation marks are pseudonyms chosen by the authors)

The Work of Sorrow by Marja Hultin Barron
Unanswered Questions for a Finnpojke by Martti Kalervo Broström
A Desire to Scream by “Emmi Eskola”      
Horseshoes and Licorice Drops by Juha Hankkila      
The Last Summer in Sweden by “Karina Heino”        
Farting in Swedish by Veijo Holopainen       
Sugar Beets and Spettecaka by Soile Kiema Ilvesoksa           
Dragons in a Handbag by Veikko Inkinen        
A Good and Bad Hand by Eric Jaakkola     
The Red Shoes by Anita Jakobsson         
Bread in a Suitcase by Rauni Janser       
The Lucky Stain by Rauno Juntunen    
Paper Dolls by Sirpa Kaukinen        
The Woman in the Broad-Brimmed Hat by Kirsti Kettunen   
Swedish Toys by Helena Nyqvist Koivisto       
Goodbye to the Bombs by Anne-Maj Korpela
Someone’s Daughter by “Leena Korpi”          
To the Bomb and Back by Eeva Lindgren           
A Blonde Curly-haired Girl by Mirja Luoma        
Fishing with Ragnar by Pekka/Peter Louhimo      
Black Birds by Seppo Mälkki      
A Terror of the Dark by Marita Merilahti      
Funeral Games by “Eine Miller”         
The Woman in Black by Helena Nilsson        
Understanding Backwards by Veijo Pönniäinen Paine    
A Happier War Child Story by Virve Kaisu Kyllikki Palos      
No Easy Choices by Ossi Rahkonen        
God natt, sov Gott by Lea Rehula        
A Lifelong Exile by Kai Rosnell        
“Take the Bed Down!” by Gertrud Rullander           
Waiting for the Time to Pass by Irma Saarinen           
Children’s Prayers by Kaarina Siilasto          
“Send the Little Ones!” by Bodil Nordman Söderberg       
A Tale of Two Sisters by Marja Tähtinen     
Swedish Fish by Rolf J. E. Tarvala     
Horses in the Kitchen by Jorma Törmänen         
Rita, not Rauha by “Rita Trent”      
Repairing the Clock by Kaj Wanne         
Soldier Boy by Norman Westerberg

Appendix: A Swedish War Child Administration Form

Bibliography
Index