My papa’s journal from 1939, he lived in Finland but immigrated to Canada in his adult years. He would’ve been a child around this time, about 12 years old? He passed in 2012 but my family found this. I can’t read Finnish very well but these are some pictures of the journal. They are probably not in order.
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There is a lot more pages but this is some.
Goodness me, this looks so much like my Mummi’s hand writing. Born in Finnish Karelia in the 1920’s.
Definitely a child’s handwriting. I wrote exactly like this when I was about ten years old, same style. Looks like he’s written down what news he’s hearing over the radio and from evacuated people. Some pages have time stamps ( 9th day 11th day).
It’s mostly listing the amount of deaths, wounded, equipment etc.
Hold on to that one, a very sentimental piece of history for your family!