Two women, Asha and Elisabeth, were born in Bangladesh but moved to Europe in the 1970s as infants, after being adopted by a Danish and Norwegian couple respectively. All these years later, they are on a mission in their birthplace to trace their roots
Shama Jameela Mollie Hartt, adopted by a Canadian couple in 1972, was overwhelmed when she first discovered her identity as a war child of 1971. Her struggles, however, pale in front of fellow war child Merina Begum, who grew up in Bangladesh and continues to live with the neglect and stigma of being a ‘jaroj shontan’