Bay Area woman, sister separated by war. 74 years later, a reunion

Tamara Terichow was leading a quiet life in San Rafael when she got a call last year that would give her one of the biggest shocks of her life. It was the Red Cross. They had found her sister, Lidia, lost a lifetime ago when they were children and the world was at war. Next would come phone calls back and forth and, finally, a reunion. Over the summer, Terichow flew to Finland, where the sisters met for the first time in 74 years. “We talked, we were happy,” Tamara said. “We cried.