Storsien
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Storsien is a small village in Kalix Municipality
in northern Sweden
. It is best known for the internment camp located there where about 300–370 communists and pacifists were held during the winter of 1939–1940.
The village was founded in 1798 and grew to its maximum size at the end of the 1940s with about 80 inhabitants. Today it consists of thirteen farms with a total of about twenty-five people. Mail service, with one delivery per week, was started in early 1900. Telephones were installed in 1927, and electricity in 1941.
Kalix Municipality
Kalix Municipality is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Kalix.In 1924 Töre Municipality was detached from Nederkalix Municipality, forming a municipality of its own...
in northern Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. It is best known for the internment camp located there where about 300–370 communists and pacifists were held during the winter of 1939–1940.
The village was founded in 1798 and grew to its maximum size at the end of the 1940s with about 80 inhabitants. Today it consists of thirteen farms with a total of about twenty-five people. Mail service, with one delivery per week, was started in early 1900. Telephones were installed in 1927, and electricity in 1941.