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Peter Freidrich Sander -- the day of my adoption:
November 6, 1957. As part of the international adoption process, my name,
birth certificate and nationality would all be falsified. |
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I served for seven years 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; I was stationed there from
1979-1982. |
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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
during the summer of 1989. 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 took 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. Photo taken in 2002 |
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