adopted children

Ioanna Robyn Zalewa (Giannopoulou), who was adopted at 15 months old in 1958 by an American family in Houston, Texas, and who recently obtained Greek citizenship after a three-year struggle, spoke briefly about her story and the battle she fought against bureaucracy, as well as how deeply moved she...

Despoina Ellen Lori Rubinstein, who was adopted at the age of four months in 1958 by an American Jewish family in New York, shared her personal story—starting from the orphanage in Patras where she was left with a note stating her name, Despo, and her date of birth, to finding her biological sister i...