Photographs
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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.




 
 
 

 
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.




 
 
 

 
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.


 
 
 

 
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.



 
 
 

 
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.




 
 
 

 
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.


 
 
 

 
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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