Τα «Ορφανά» από την Ελλάδα - The "Orphans" from Greece (with English subtitles) скачать в хорошем качестве

Τα «Ορφανά» από την Ελλάδα - The "Orphans" from Greece (with English subtitles)

This beautifully-done documentary film by accalimed Greek journalist Andreas Bousios and Vice Greece explores the the questionable adoptions of thousands of Greek children, primarily sent to the United States, in the dark Cold War decades of the 1950's and 1960's. The film exposes this tragic period of Greek history through the eyes of three different people: two Greek-born adoptees, Merrill Jenkins and Linda Carol Trotter; and a Greek biologcal family medmber, Bobby Kalogeropoulos. Their poignant and gripping stories, while different, are also the same --- born in the aftermath of World War II and the Greek Civil War that gave rise to adoptions that were acoomplished in a matter of a few weeks to a few months, with virtually no oversight by either the Greek or U.S. governments. The documentary also highlights the work of the Eftychia Project, a U.S. based nonprofit that assists and supports, free of charge, Greek-born adoptees searching for their roots and Greek families searching for their children lost to adoption. The Eftychia Project was instrumental in facilitating the reunion between Merrill and his Greek family, and has provided assistance to Mr. Kalogeropoulos as well. In addition to their search and reunion program, the Eftychia Project also ditributes free DNA kits to Greek adoptees and Greek familieis in collaboration with MyHeritage and tirelessly advocates with the Greek government for the birth and identity rights of Greek born adoptees, including transparency, unfettered access to their birth, adoption and orphanage records and the restoration of their Greek citizenship. To contact The Eftychia Project, please visit their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TheEftychiaProject, their website at www.theeftychiaproject.org or send an email to [email protected]