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Episode Summary: In this first episode, my father is born in 1906 in the Kola Peninsula. His mother was a North Sámi, born in Vadso Norway. His father dies on the same night that he is born. His mother returns to Petsamo (now Pechenga). In 1908 Skolt Sámi relocate to live in Petsamo. My father describes his early days as a young child living in a turf hut through the long, harsh, cold winters of the north, surviving by eating berries preserved during the summer months, and building traps using birch wood to catch rabbits and grouse.

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The Sami have a tradition of oral story telling. They would sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories of their day and their life adventures/ This story is about my father and his childhood experiences growing up in northern Finland and the war year. His mother got ill shortly after WW1 started. My dad was sent to live with relatives, then to orphanages and prison camps. For the full experience - Please start the story at Chapter 1. https://youtu.be/K6WSyAU3VI4

Ice Fishing

Seal Hunting

Seal Oil Lamps

Savu Sauna

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The Sami have a tradition of oral story telling. They would sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories of their day and their life adventures/ This story is about my father and his childhood experiences growing up in northern Finland and the war year. His mother got ill shortly after WW1 started. My dad was sent to live with relatives, then to orphanages and prison camps. For the full experience - Please start the story at Chapter 1. https://youtu.be/K6WSyAU3VI4

My father is living in Petsamo when WW1 breaks out. Salomon was about 7 years old, when his mother gets ill and he is sent to a foster home.

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The Sami have a tradition of oral story telling. They would sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories of their day and their life adventures/ This story is about my father and his childhood experiences growing up in northern Finland and the war year. His mother got ill shortly after WW1 started. My dad was sent to live with relatives, then to orphanages and prison camps. For the full experience - Please start the story at Chapter 1. https://youtu.be/K6WSyAU3VI4

The adventures continue:

Salomon (My Father) (Age 7-8?) travels from Vainolähti - to Alexantrovski - to Murmansk - to Petrosavorski -

During war time Salomon's mother is very ill and has to be hospitalized. His foster parents send him on a ship to Petrosavorski Russia (St Petersburg)

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The Sami have a tradition of oral story telling. They would sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories of their day and their life adventures/ This story is about my father and his childhood experiences growin up in northern Finland and the war year. His mother got ill shortly after WW1 started. My dad was sent to live with relatives, then to orphanges and prison camps. For the full experience - Please start the story at Chapter 1. https://youtu.be/K6WSyAU3VI4

Salomon travels to Petrosavorski and is placed into an orphanage with other children who have lost their families due to the war.

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The Sami have a tradition of oral story telling. They would sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories of their day and their life adventures/ This story is about my father and his childhood experiences growing up in northern Finland and the war year. His mother got ill shortly after WW1 started. My dad was sent to live with relatives, then to orphanages and prison camps. For the full experience - Please start the story at Chapter 1. https://youtu.be/K6WSyAU3VI4

Salomon and his friend are homesick so plan to escape from the orphanage.

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The Sami have a tradition of oral story telling. They would sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories of their day and their life adventures/ This story is about my father and his childhood experiences growing up in northern Finland and the war year. His mother got ill shortly after WW1 started. My dad was sent to live with relatives, then to orphanages and prison camps. For the full experience - Please start the story at Chapter 1. https://youtu.be/K6WSyAU3VI4

Salomon is homesick and not very happy at the Orphanage so he and his friend Yrjo decide to escape

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The Sami have a tradition of oral story telling. They would sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories of their day and their life adventures/ This story is about my father and his childhood experiences growin up in northern Finland and the war year. His mother got ill shortly after WW1 started. My dad was sent to live with relatives, then to orphanages and prison camps. For the full experience - Please start the story at Chapter 1. https://youtu.be/K6WSyAU3VI4

Salomon and his friend Yrjo meet up with soldiers along their journey.

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The Sami have a tradition of oral story telling. They would sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories of their day and their life adventures/ This story is about my father and his childhood experiences growing up in northern Finland during the war year. His mother got ill shortly after WW1 started. My dad was sent to live with relatives, then to orphanages and prison camps. For the full experience - Please start the story at Chapter 1. https://youtu.be/K6WSyAU3VI4

Salomon and his friend Yrjo meet the one eyed woman.

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The Sami have a tradition of oral story telling. They would sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories of their day and their life adventures/ This story is about my father and his childhood experiences growin up in northern Finland and the war year. His mother got ill shortly after WW1 started. My dad was sent to live with relatives, then to orphanges and prison camps. For the full experience - Please start the story at Chapter 1. https://youtu.be/K6WSyAU3VI4

During their travels to find the Finnish border, Salomon gets lost and can't find Yrjo.

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The Sami have a tradition of oral story telling. They would sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories of their day and their life adventures/ This story is about my father and his childhood experiences growin up in northern Finland and the war year. His mother got ill shortly after WW1 started. My dad was sent to live with relatives, then to orphanges and prison camps. For the full experience - Please start the story at Chapter 1. https://youtu.be/K6WSyAU3VI4

Salomon is asked to help find a cow that has disappeared in the forest.

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The Sami have a tradition of oral story telling. They would sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories of their day and their life adventures/ This story is about my father and his childhood experiences growin up in northern Finland and the war year. His mother got ill shortly after WW1 started. My dad was sent to live with relatives, then to orphanges and prison camps. For the full experience - Please start the story at Chapter 1. https://youtu.be/K6WSyAU3VI4

Salomon has been captured by Russian soldiers.

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While captured, Salomon gets permission to go begging for food from local residents.

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Salomon, Age 9? is thought to be a spy and is put into Prison Camp.

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CHAPTER 15 The Sami have a tradition of oral story telling. They would sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories of their day and their life adventures/ This story is about my father and his childhood experiences growin up in northern Finland and the war year. His mother got ill shortly after WW1 started. My dad was sent to live with relatives, then to orphanges and prison camps. For the full experience - Please start the story at Chapter 1. https://youtu.be/K6WSyAU3VI4

After many months of searching, Marja Hellen finds Salomon at the prison camp.