Heartbreaking to read what our ancestors endured:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/....1955.10411468
An Irishman, Andrew Newby, has been in Finland gathering information about memorials of the famines of Finland.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/i...orials/9739853
The last famine in Finland was 1866-68.. my father's mother was a child then, but remembered hearing people talk about eating bark bread, etc.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/....1955.10411468
An Irishman, Andrew Newby, has been in Finland gathering information about memorials of the famines of Finland.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/i...orials/9739853
The last famine in Finland was 1866-68.. my father's mother was a child then, but remembered hearing people talk about eating bark bread, etc.