Tove Jansson periodicals and daily papers. During this period, Jansson also designed many book covers, adverts and postcards. Following her mother's example, she drew illustrations for "Garm", an anti-fascist Finnish-Swedish satirical magazine. She was briefly engaged in the 1940s to Atos Wirtanen. During her later studies, Jansson met her future partner Tuulikki Pietilä. The two women collaborated on many works and projects, including a model of the Moominhouse, in collaboration with Pentti Eistola. This is now exhibited at the Moomin museum in Tampere. Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, "The Moomins and the Great Flood", in 1945, during World War
Finnish war children war, Finland experienced times of economic hardship, and also substantial insecurity with regard to the Soviet Union's plans for Finland, which resulted in the delay of the return of the children for several years. Ultimately, about 20% of the war children stayed with their foster families after the war, who often adopted them. Many more returned to Sweden as adults, when the prolonged post-war hardship in Finland pushed large contingents of unemployed Finns to Sweden's booming economy in the 1950s–60s. "Mother of Mine" (Finnish: "Äideistä parhain", Swedish: "Den bästa av mödrar") is a 2005 Finnish-Swedish film directed by Klaus Härö