Twins Adopted To Different Parents Didn’t Know About Each Other Until Now

George Skrzynecky and Lucian Poznanski

While it may be nice to think that these incidents of twins being separated at birth were rare and far between, it happens more frequently than you probably imagined, particularly where poor and war-torn parents are concerned. They just want what’s best for their children, so sometimes parents don’t have a choice but to give their children up for adoption. Other times, of course, it’s more a case of a well-meaning aid organization who takes steps that ultimately cannot be undone.

Such is the case with the mother of George Skrzynecky and Lucian Poznanski. While her rescuers seemed to have her best interests at heart, she survived the German forced-labor camp and the horrors of war only to find that her baby twin boys had been adopted out to other families. They would not meet again for 68 years.