Originally posted on IrishCentral.com.
Not many of us remember much from the first few years of our lives, but with thanks to parents, family and friends with good memories, not to mention plenty of baby photographs, the majority of us are lucky to know where and how we spent the years before our proper memories begin.
This wasn’t the case for Kari Rovall from Ballinteer, Co. Dublin. Having being adopted and raised in Sweden, she relocated to Ireland some years ago, never knowing anything about how she came to an orphanage in her infancy.
Her early childhood remained a life-long mystery, until she was 64 years old and received a letter containing the first photograph she had ever seen of herself as a baby. The photographers? Nazis.
Beginning a quest to unearth the truth of her own history, Kari discovered that she had been born as part of the Lebensborn or “the spring of life” program, established in Nazi Germany for the purpose of creating a so-called Aryan race. This “master race” plan was a breeding program churning out batches of blond-haired, blue-eyed children who were set to become…
via Dublin woman discovers she was born into Nazi breeding program – IrishCentral.com.
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So many similar stories are surfacing since the right to search out birth parents became common, and helped by the Internet. However, this is the first I have seen concerning the ‘Lebensborn’ project. I am not sure that I would really want to know, had it been me, but obviously I did not come from that uncertain background, so would never judge those that do.
Best wishes, Pete.
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But you wouldn’t know what the circumstances might have been until you researched, by which time it’s too late if you discover something nasty in the woodshed!
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That’s just the dilemma I mean Sarah. A tricky one to call…
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I think if you’re in that situation, you would not be able to stop yourself from finding out your origins – it’s a strong urge for people who’ve been adopted.
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I can see how it would be Sarah.
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