TOGETHER APART | Anne Catherine's story: "He spent two months alone, without a single visit".
Channel: Europe In Your Language
Date: 2023-04-24

Anne-Catherine, a retired nurse from Stockholm, was enjoying a happy family life and an active social life with her husband Håkan when the COVID-19 virus spread around the world at breakneck speed. It was just around that time that Håkan suffered a stroke and had to remain in hospital for two months, without any family visits. 

How did Anne-Catherine manage to cope with the impact of this traumatic experience on her husband and herself? 

Watch Anne-Catherine tell her story in the interview she gave for ’Together apart’ in June 2021.

Watch the story on the My House of European History: https://my-european-history.ep.eu/myhouse/story/1700/en 

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‘Together apart. Mobility in times of COVID-19’ is a collection of personal testimonies about how different people experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and especially how it impacted their ability to move freely. 

It is a project developed jointly by the European Parliament’s ‘My House of European History’ online platform and the House of European History museum. Fifteen people from Italy, Romania and Sweden, at different stages of their lives, share how lockdown and COVID-19 restrictions changed their daily lives following the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020. 

You can find and watch their stories in all 24 EU languages on the ‘My House of European History’ platform.