What Were the Motives of the Participants to Take Part in the Child Transfers From Finland to Sweden During the Second World War 1939-1940?

A. Plan of investigation This investigation is to find out the reasons why the Finnish Government and Swedish voluntary organizations agreed to organise the broadest child evacuation operation in war-time history. I will look at the motives for the Finnish mothers who sent their mostly under school-aged children to a foreign country for evacuation, and also discuss the motives of the Swedish people to help the Finnish children. First I will take a quick look …

…organised in schools in the biggest cities, and Swedish circling hospitals went around in Finland during summers. Mobile paediatric hospitals went round in Finland every summer, and the 'godcity' system worked so that every town or city received a friendship town in Sweden and packages of goods were sent to the towns and letters exchanged. Kavén, p. 18 and 31 Korppi-Tommola: Sotalapset, p. 11 Kavén, p. 55-56 Korppi-Tommola: Sotalapset, p. 9