World?s Leading People Search Engine 123people Supports Aid for
Victims of East Germany - Forced Adoptions in the Reunification of
Families
VIENNA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--123people
now supports ?Aid for Victims of East Germany - Forced Adoptions e.V.?,
an association dedicated to helping displaced children and families
reunite. Their numbers are estimated in the tens of thousands and little
is known about the fate of children forcibly separated from parents
during the Communist rule of East Germany. Politically motivated child
abductions were carried out as a popular way to silence regime
opponents. Often children were released without parental consent for
adoption into new, system-compliant families. To this day many children
and parents have no trace of their past or where they came from. With
the help of 123people, the world?s leading people search engine with
over 40 million unique visitors per month, some families are being
reunited from the past of forced adoptions.
?Aid for Victims of East Germany - Forced Adoptions e.V.?
Founded in 2007 the self-help organization, Aid
for Victims of East Germany - Forced Adoptions e.V. (OVZ DDR e.V.),
was created to locate and reconnect children and parents torn apart by
forced adoptions during the communist era. Karen
Behr, Managing Director of OVZ DDR e.V., is dedicated to reuniting
families as she herself was a victim of forced adoptions, finally
reunited with her mother after 19 years of separation. "In our effort to
reunite families separated by forced adoptions, we work toward forming a
complete history of separated parents and children. We often have little
or no data to work with, sometimes having only one name or a birth date
to track people. In addition, we never know if a child now bears a
different name," says Karen Behr.
The organization receives over 400 requests each year from people
searching for children or parents. To help make missing persons aware
they are being searched for and to support the organization?s work in
attempting to locate children and parents, 123people launched a campaign
in association with the OVZ DDR e.V., to assist in its efforts to
reunite families. Every time a user name associated with OVZ DDR e.V. is
used in searches on 123people, in any of the thirteen countries
123people offers its service, a banner-link appears that refers to this
person as possibly being searched for by families and the OVZ DDR e.V.
"The story of Mrs. Behr really touched us. With thirty percent of
Internet searches being people searches, and with our global presence
and number of users, it is likely we can assist the OVZ DDR e.V. in
finding and reconnecting children and families torn apart by forced
adoptions,? said Bernhard
Hoetzl, Chief Marketing Officer of 123people.
For more information on Aid for Victims of East Germany - Forced
Adoptions (OVZ DDR e.V.) visit http://www.personen-suche-ddr.de
(German only)
About 123people
123people (www.123people.com)
is the premier online person related search service. The service
intelligently aggregates and organizes social networking, media, search
engine and strategic partner content with regionally relevant
information. For private users, 123people enables users to check their
digital footprint 24/7. For business users the service provides a
competitive tool in contextual human search unavailable through general
search engines. For the enterprise user, the service organizes
comprehensive name related search data in real time. Currently 123people
is available in thirteen countries: USA (www.123people.com),
Canada (www.123people.ca),
Brazil (www.123people.com.br),
UK (www.123people.co.uk),
Austria (www.123people.at),
Germany (www.123people.de),
Switzerland (www.123people.ch),
Italy (www.123people.it),
Spain (www.123people.es),
The Netherlands (www.123people.nl),
France (www.123people.fr),
Sweden (www.123people.se)
and Poland (www.123people.pl).
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InTheNewsPR on behalf of 123people
James Malone
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