Community directory

Everyone here is looking for something true.

Adoptees who started searching with a single photograph. Adoptive families who learned the difference between helping and holding on. Browse as many profiles as you like — and when you are ready, add your own.

Adoptive family

Rana Khatib

London, United Kingdom

Family therapist working with adoptees and their first families.

Offers professional help

Adoptive family

Marleen dekker

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Adoptive mother and archive volunteer in Rotterdam.

Stichting Kinderpostzegels · Adopted 1998 · Supports the fund

AdopteeResearching

Sepideh Lindqvist

from Rasht · Gothenburg, Sweden

Looking for the family that named me Sepideh in Rasht.

b. 1988 · Adopted 1991

AdopteeResearching

Hooman Kjeldsen

from Bandar Anzali · Copenhagen, Denmark

Tracing the children’s home in Bandar Anzali that closed in 1996.

b. 1986 · Adopted 1992

AdopteeResearching

Saghi Venema

from Tabriz · Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Runner. Raising money for the reunions that cannot pay their own way.

b. 1981 · Adopted 1984

Adoptive family

Elin Ostberg

Gothenburg, Sweden

Volunteer Farsi translator for first calls and old documents.

Supports the fund

AdopteeIn contact

Gelareh Roos

from Zanjan · Utrecht, Netherlands

Translator. Farsi, Dutch, and the language of waiting.

b. 1986 · Adopted 1989

AdopteeResearching

Kamran Weber

from Tehran · Hamburg, Germany

Driving at night so the search never stops.

b. 1976 · Adopted 1979

Adoptive family

Paolo Marchetti

Milan, Italy

Adoptive father, twenty years on, still learning.

Ente Nazionale Adozioni · Adopted 2003 · Advocates for the community

AdopteeResearching

Sohrab Novak

from Urmia · Prague, Czechia

Genealogist by trade, searcher by necessity.

b. 1982 · Adopted 1985

1 story to read

AdopteeIn contact

Ali Mokhtari

from Tabriz · Toronto, Canada

Found my birth brother; we are learning to be adults together.

b. 1989 · Adopted 1993

AdopteeStarting the search

Bijan Hollis

Manchester, United Kingdom

Just started. Do not know my birth name yet.

b. 2001 · Adopted 2003

AdopteeStarting the search

Farzad Lundgren

from Isfahan · Malmö, Sweden

Not searching yet, but I have started collecting the paperwork.

b. 1991 · Adopted 1993

Adoptive family

Grace Whitfield

Portland, USA

Adoptive parent, donor to the reunion fund.

Holt International · Adopted 2007 · Supports the fund

AdopteeIn contact

Bahar Andersen

from Sari · Bergen, Norway

Nurse. Looking for the medical history I was never given.

b. 1990 · Adopted 1993

AdopteeStarting the search

Nazanin Silva

from Kermanshah · São Paulo, Brazil

Learning Persian so my mother can understand me.

b. 1996 · Adopted 1999

AdopteeResearching

Pardis Müller

from Gorgan · Vienna, Austria

Lawyer working on access to sealed adoption files.

b. 1987 · Adopted 1990

Adoptive family

Annika Larsson

Sundsvall, Sweden

Adoptive parent of two daughters from Gilan.

Scandinavian Adoption Council · Adopted 2004 · Mentors families

AdopteeStarting the search

Niloufar Haugen

from Shiraz · Oslo, Norway

Singer. Searching for the lullaby my mother sang.

b. 1989 · Adopted 1992

1 story to read

AdopteeResearching

Mahmoud Verschoor

from Tehran · Antwerp, Belgium

Searching for a sister I only know from one photograph.

b. 1981 · Adopted 1985

AdopteeIn contact

Roya Menkik

from Isfahan · Rotterdam, Netherlands

In contact with my birth mother — slowly, and with care.

b. 1991 · Adopted 1994

1 story to read

Adoptive family

Willem Jansen

Utrecht, Netherlands

Adoptive father of two, both searching, both supported.

Adoptiedienst Utrecht · Adopted 2005 · Advocates for the community

AdopteeReunited

Shabnam Ortega

from Bandar Anzali · Barcelona, Spain

Reunited twice — with a sister and then with a cousin.

b. 1985 · Adopted 1989

1 story to read

AdopteeReunited

Omid Kaufman

from Ramsar · Toronto, Canada

Reunited with the sister I remembered, not the one I expected.

b. 1990 · Adopted 1995

AdopteeResearching

Farhad Larsen

from Ahvaz · Copenhagen, Denmark

Twenty years of DNA results, still no match. Still searching.

b. 1978 · Adopted 1980

Adoptive family

Nahid Nasrin

Berlin, Germany

Lawyer working on Iranian civil records and sealed-file petitions.

Offers professional help

Adoptive family

Claire Moreau

Lyon, France

Adoptive mother who mentors other adoptive parents.

Aide aux familles · Adopted 2001 · Mentors families

AdopteeResearching

Roshanak Perry

from Saqqez · Bristol, United Kingdom

Curious about Saqqez, and about the two names on my file.

b. 1994 · Adopted 1997

AdopteeReunited

Arash van Dijk

from Tabriz · Amsterdam, Netherlands

Reunited with my birth brother in Tabriz — 31 years later.

b. 1983 · Adopted 1986

1 story to read

AdopteeReunited

Shirin Doucet

from Ahvaz · Montreal, Canada

Reunited with my mother in Ahvaz. She remembers the song, not the date.

b. 1979 · Adopted 1984

AdopteeResearching

Kian Berger

from Tehran · Berlin, Germany

Building the archive of adoption papers, one scan at a time.

b. 1994 · Adopted 1997

AdopteeStarting the search

Hamed Torres

from Isfahan · Lisbon, Portugal

Photographer. Documenting the adoptee community abroad.

b. 1993 · Adopted 1996

AdopteeReunited

Mitra Lindgren

from Lahijan · Malmö, Sweden

Reunited with my birth father in 2021.

b. 1984 · Adopted 1987

AdopteeIn contact

Parvin Osterberg

from Kermanshah · Stockholm, Sweden

In contact with my birth family since spring — slowly, on both sides.

b. 1990 · Adopted 1994

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