Irma Paukkonen’s father brought his daughter a gift from Germany, a doll, that she would take for walks on the streets of her home town Vyborg, the second largest city in Finland at the time. The doll’s feet are worn from all the walking. When the Soviet Union in the end of 1939 attacked across the eastern border to the Karelian isthmus, Vyborgians fled the Winter War. Irma took the doll with her into exile.
Irma Paukkonen’s father brought his daughter a gift from Germany, a doll, that she would take for walks on the streets of her home town Vyborg, the second largest city in Finland at the time. The doll’s feet are worn from all the walking. When the Soviet Union in the end of 1939 attacked across the eastern border to the Karelian isthmus, Vyborgians fled the Winter War. Irma took the doll with her into exile.
