Echo
Through divorce, adoption and second marriages, none of the children in the Van Wijk family have the same biological parents.
State Owned Children
Following in the footsteps of two women in search of their origins, this documentary lifts the veil on a little-known page of the post-war era: the adoption, as part of a cross-border program, of thousands of children born during the French occupation of Germany.
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