I'm adopted and at the age of 64 have just discovered Betty's books. They have revealed to me the oppressive role of the secrecy that surrounded me growing up. I am also having great difficulty in coming to terms with the role a GP played in the inhumane and underhand way my adoption was carried out. She was a famous GP, not least because as a Jewish woman doctor (unusual enough then) she escaped the Nazi's and came to England where she practised in a poor London suburb until well in to her 90's. When I approached her for details about my adoption she refused to tell me anything because she did not agree with the law that had been passed to allow me to trace my birth family. This from a woman who had experienced the breaking up of families in the Holocaust. Or perhaps she was worried that the role she had played would be investigated. Her name was Hannah Streisow. I did find my birth family and the impact is on-going. I am finding it very difficult to move on.

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