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Peter Freidrich Sander -- I was three-years old the day of my adoption. As part of the international adoption process, my name, birth certificate and nationality would all be falsified. |
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I served as an Army officer and left the service with the rank of captain. One of the reasons I entered the armed forces was to return to Germany; where I was stationed after my initial training. |
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My birthmother, Ilse Sander, during our second meeting
in Bad Nauheim, Germany. Although we had been separated for 22 years, I
found her three days after returning to Germany. |
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My extended German family in Mörfelden, Germany. My
birthmother is in the middle on the far right. My beloved Great Aunt
Maria, the first member of my birth family I would meet as an adult, is on
the far left. Photo dated August, 1954. |
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My great grandparents Josef and Francisca Sander in
the Sudetenland, now part of the Czech Republic. Aunt Maria is the little
girl. Photo taken during the late 1800s. |
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Zdena Mrkvankova and I met through chance in Prague. She grew up in a town in the province of Moravia (Czech Republic) next to the village where my German ancestors had lived for 700 years. Zdena guided me to that village where I completed my outward search. |
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The search for one's identity can be a difficult and lifelong process for many international adoptees. Peter Friedrich Sander, a.k.a. Peter Frederick Dodds. |
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I wish the very best to all adoptees and birth mothers who choose to search. | |||
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