Two Russian sisters found themselves at the end of January, 78 years after their separation in the middle of World War II, thanks to the help of a television program and the Russian police.
At the time of the reunion, Yulia and Rozalina Kharitonova, now aged 92 and 94 years, hugged and kissed, while around them, relatives wiped tears, according to images of the meeting obtained Friday from from the Russian Interior Ministry.
"I looked for her, I always looked for her," repeated Rozalina, holding her sister by the hand.
As teenagers, they lived with their parents in Stalingrad, site of the eponymous great battle, when they were separated in 1942 at the time of the evacuation of the city in the face of the Nazi bombardments.
Born in 1928, Yulia Kharitonova was evacuated with her mother and ended up in Penza, while Rozalina, born in 1926, was resettled 1000 km east in Chelyabinsk, in the Urals, with employees of the factory where she worked.
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"Separated by war in their youth, these people have not given up hope of seeing each other for 78 long years," Russian police spokeswoman Irina Volk said in a statement.