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Nisha Mal

'Two sisters put up for adoption at the end of WWII reunite after 75 years apart'

Marc WWII World War II Netherlands

Two sisters who were put up for adoption at the end of WWII have reunited after 75 years. Annie IJpelaar, 78, and Sheila Anne Fry, 75, reunited in June 2022 after Sheila's daughter-in-law took it upon herself to track her long-lost relative.

Sheila had been adopted shortly after birth at the end of World War II in 1946 in the UK and had no knowledge of her birth parents' identities. She uncovered the identity of her father using DNA site and discovered she had a half-sister who lived in the Netherlands - who was born just a few months after her.

Sheila's daughter-in-law, Karen, was messaged by Annie's son, Marc, and both sisters did a DNA test which confirmed that they were related. After a FaceTime call in May 2022, the sisters met for the first time in Drunan, the Netherlands, in June 2022.

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