Ravitsemisalan Ammattikorkeakoulu - WWII - Kauhajoki, Finland
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N 62° 25.716 E 022° 10.894
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Kauhajoki School of Hospitality owned by the Seinäjoki Vocational Education Centre Sedu
Waymark Code: WMAC22
Location: Finland
Date Posted: 12/22/2010
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Since 1920 there are been many kind of Catering and Home Economical education in this building. Now it is one part of Vocational Education Centre Sedu and Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences.
Text in sign are:
"Tässä rakennuksessa toimi sotasairaala sotiemme 1939-1945 aikana"
Translation:
"In this building located field hospital during the wars 1939-1945"
Latest tragic history of this campus are The Kauhajoki school shooting:
School shooting that occurred on 23 September 2008, at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, a city in Western Finland. The gunman, 22-year-old culinary arts student Matti Juhani Saari, shot and fatally injured ten people with a semi-automatic pistol, before shooting himself in the head. He died a few hours later in Tampere University Hospital. One woman was injured but was in a stable condition.
Address:
Topeeka 47
61800 KAUHAJOKI
Name of War: World War II
Type of Documentation: Historic Marker/Interpretive
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