European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 09, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse German tracing service 9manmifm&mmm.mreunites families broker lives Hani so Perlinsky left55, directs German tracing service. Resort family thought lad Arrow left wot their ton until boy Arrow right turned up in at War s end. Fly Hanns Neuerburg a staff Wriler Are searching for. Three times a week the German radio network carries a bulletin Sterling wit those words. In the Early afternoon Ummil by at Dis washing to Tom. It Teui of pathetic human tragedy. It i the bulletin of the German r4cross children tracing or Ali o. Eighteen yearn after be any. The tracing str ire i till seeking to reunite Fiou snot of fam Lulea separated by world War ii. Children who have grown tip hut often do not know their real mimes Zittu Loo for their Parent. And parents still Hope to find children they lost in wartime month officiate at the tracing Morvice i Small shabby Headquarters in Hamburg. Germany still help to arrange Many reunions of families split for almost two decades. Often there Are no team Only shyness even embarrassment. Strangers face each other and have trouble toying mum my girl or my All i probabilities of human life Are familiar to us says Hans 65, head of the tracing sen ice for the children their parents Are often strangers. The Young often have no desire to be with the old people. Such situation require lot of understanding. Often delicate decisions must be of the separated Fullie were expelled from the East Gen Nim territories seized by Poland and the soviet Union. Others fled in panic from advancing soviet troops whom the nazis described a horde of sub human. The children tracing service was set up immediately after the ims the tracing Are Joe has helped 134.000 children find their parents or other relatives again re ports. The task i getting More and More difficult now. So much time Haa elapsed. But we atoll have about 100 Success re port every of the tracing service la a Bulky Index which atoll lists 5,500 Parent least children who live with cooler parents or have already set up a family of their own. Says Sperl Nikl in Many cues the True identities Are not known so we list As Many particulars bus possible when and when the child a found what it wore any Birthmark and so on. The color of the eyes nil of their Fialer Are Jess important because they May All these particulars Are not proof the last decision generally is in the hands of do not believe in the voice of the blood which people say makes Parent Sand children always recognize each other. had a Case where 30 mothers identified the name child As the per own and the real Mother who was found later hot not been among them. We Maxi rely on Lyon Sarnuto detail Iro Durid by Phil uni Bikini burled in the it to tend rites is Imp Cut of urdu in Lack Clur who win picked up from the icy Baltic a a baby in 1ih5. He Mother and four Brothers and Sitters wore drowned in the kinking of a refugee crammed freighter which struck a mine. The name pm Nhy was cared for As gotta a Numen by a family until a search and in a refugee newspaper produced 12"parents." none was the real one but one family s Story seemed so convincing that local authorities agreed gotta must a theirs. Gotta became morals officially the Caw was closed but the men lit the tracing service were still doubtful. In South Germany their search pouter found an in in rented Reader architect or win like scr whom wife and five children and Hern Ming since the ims help d Hosier. Proof itt he was the real father Camo within week. Or Lake Hir a of Fried Helm Renert deaf mule Hon of n Ruhr Miner who wan separated from his Mother in a panic swept railway station at the end of the War. A few yearn inter mrs. Or Rrt win reunited with net on it Liu a hic thought the who who was Jori Ted in eth orphanage. But in 1b33, the real Fried Helm was traced to Czechoslovakia. Both stayed with in. Kesert but when the Foster son was grown up he made efforts to find his Awn parents. My red Cross examine could find out for him i lengthy interviews a that his Home must have been a Village in camera la and that there was a red Hospital near Case wan included in the search bul Letin and in july 19g2, a Joiner Arthur Burow read of it in a Village near Frankfurt. By Row s son Heinz had been missing since the War. Burow travelled to the Ruhr Home of the resorts. Among the in Olla Tlona was one of a thrashing for climbing up an tipple tree. Burow Wax sure he had found his son. A blood Check and an anthropological opinion confirmed his belief much easier Szyc Olinsk recalls waste Case of lid la. A Yaunt girl in Poland who asked the Hamburg office to find her father. Her Mother wrote presumably perished in the Gas Chambers Tofau Chulu where the herself As a 4-year old child had oven a prisoner of the nazi. Miraculously the child escaped her Tat toed number 70472 on the left lower arms thu bearing witness to her suffering. Polish authorities advised that according to Luna s number and nazi Olise Kinder Suchen then children Art Tirol us the to Porenti red Cron poll records found at a Schultt she must have come from the soviet Union. We pop new to a a he soviet red Crons for help when a Iti Artick Hilld. We received a request from Moscow to search for the daughter of mrs. Anna Bocharova. Both Mother and daughter had been to Auschwitz. Cue what mrs. To Char on i to Ltford number was 70,071. Thu Early last year i could write to Ltd Lathat her family was in the soviet Union and that she was wrong about her Mother but thousands of Parent leu children will probably be never reunited with their real Purens. Szpur Lynski said. Many parents arc dead and Many children have Al ready been adapt a by German and for eign a under German Law adoption can be annulled Only if it is in the Best interest of the child even it the real parents Are found. After Many years of living with Foster families children Are usually left in their familiar environment. Sometimes Foster parents in their de sire to protect their child go to the extreme. We found the parents of a girl who Hod already been adopted by an american major in Frankfurt and taken to the United states. The parents agreed it would be better if the child waa left with the Amer Lynn family. Under youth welfare rules we could not give them the girl s Edmund Cook a la retd log Many at told a marching for identity. New name or add thu. They Juit Oik cd fora picture of their daughter. Via the Ger Man consulate general in new York we tried to Contact the major. Then will never any Szper Len ill a a. 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