This article seeks to demonstrate how Finnish refugee children experienced living in Swedish refugee camps during the Second World War (1939-1945). The study focus-es on children's opinions and experiences reflected through adulthood. The data were collected through retrospective interviews with six adults who experienced wartime as children in Finland and were evacuated to Sweden as refugees. Five of the interview-ees were female and one of them was male. The study shows, it was of decisive im-portance to the refugee children's well-being to have reliable adults around them dur-ing the evacuation and at the camps. The findings demonstrate that careful planning made a significant difference to the childreńs adaptations to refugee camp life. The daily routines at the camp, such as regular meals, play time and camp school, reflected life at home and helped the children to continue their lives, even under challenging circumstances.

Second World War Refugee children Sweden Lapland camp Finland

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