Charlotte's Story | Finding Those Missing Pieces of Her Story
Adopted at less than a month old from Pittsburgh, United States, Charlotte Schramm grew up questioning what adoption meant and why she had been placed for adoption. As she got older, those unanswered ...
5 Juni 28min
Kelly’s Lifelong Search for Her Māori Roots
From our An Adoption Story series. You can watch her documentary on Alex Gilbert’s YouTube channel. Kelly Stringer was adopted at just two weeks old in Christchurch, New Zealand, and grew up in a fami...
12 Maj 15min
Jay Barbanel’s Story from Costa Rica | Finding Tico: Those Fragments of Memory
Jay Barbanel was born in Costa Rica and spent his early years surrounded by instability and uncertainty. After being taken from his birth mother, he and his brother were placed in an orphanage and lat...
28 Apr 36min
Arna’s Search to Understand Where She Came From
From our An Adoption Story series. You can watch her documentary on Alex Gilbert’s YouTube channel. Adopted as a baby in Auckland, New Zealand, Arna (Anna Francesca) Intra grew up always knowing she w...
10 Apr 14min
Adopted from Russia: Kian's Story of Identity, Loss, and Learning About His Roots
Kian Lafford was adopted from Omsk, Russia in September 2007. He later received the name Kian after being adopted into an Irish family. Growing up in a small town in Ireland with a large Eastern Europ...
14 Mars 26min
Oksana’s Search for the Sister She Never Knew in Russia
From our An Adoption Story series. You can watch her documentary story on Alex Gilbert's YouTube channel. Oksana Rennie was born in 1991 in a small village in the western part of Russia’s Smolensk reg...
10 Mars 15min
James Axiotis: A Mother Named Georgia
James Axiotis was born in Athens, Greece, to an unwed mother named Georgia Korakis. With no support for single mothers at the time, he was handed over to the authorities after a week in the hospital. ...
14 Feb 35min
