Riihimäki prison camp

According to the war victims of Finland -database, a total of 981 prisoners died in camp, in result of executions, hunger and disease.

The camp was closed down in October 1918, and the forced labour facility replacing it was shut down in the spring of 1921.

[1] After this, the whites executed a total of 141 members of the red guard in Riihimäki and other parts of the Hausjärvi parish.

[2] The collection of the red guard members to the Riihimäki garrison area began in early May 1918.

The prison camp, closed down in September 1918 and was transformed into a forced labour facility.

[3] As many other camps, the prisoners in Riihimäki were forced to live malnourished in cramped and inhumane conditions.

Foodstuff being on shortage, different things such as straws were baked into bread, causing bowel diseases.