These heartbroken Canadian seniors are forced to live in separate health care facilities after 62 years of marriage — and they burst into tears whenever they get a chance to visit.
Wolfram Gottschalk and his wife, Anita, were photographed by granddaughter Ashley Bartyik, who posted the image on Facebook in hopes it would spur officials to get the couple back together permanently.
“This is the saddest photo I have ever taken,” she wrote. “We want justice for my grandparents who after 62 years together deserve to spend their last moments in the same building.”
Wolfram, 83, and Anita, 81, are in separate care facilities in Surrey, British Columbia, and were ripped apart because they require different levels of care, with Wolfram in a hospital 30 minutes from Anita’s nursing home, officials said.