This study aims to explore how Exile Karelians' belonging is created and formed through the lived experience of memory. I will be answering the following questions: What memories are tied to Karelia, and what meaning do they hold? How are memories tied to other persons, places, and objects? How do people navigate between Swedish, Finnish and Karelian culture and belonging through their memories? My empirical material is based on five interviews with evacuated Karelians and children of evacuated Karelians. I have analysed the material with the concept of lived experience of memory, and the concept of belonging theorised by Yuval-Davis. My results show that memories of war, evacuation, and Karelia are central in creating feelings of belonging to one’s family and to a broader Karelian community. The lived experience of memory is formed by social interactions, material practices and historical narratives. A common practice was to visit Karelia in so-called Kotiseutumatka, making memories more tangible. The participants’ belonging to Karelian and Finnish national belonging seems to be at points hard to differentiate, often being intertwined, and contrasted against being Swedish, some also describing not really belonging to anything, or belonging to little bit of everything.