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

Forced Labor Camp

The mother of George Skrzynecky and Lucian Poznanski was a Polish woman named Elizabeth, who’d been rescued from a German forced-labor camp by the Allied forces near the end of World War II. While it might sound a lot better to have been interned in one of these camps, the conditions were often still atrocious, without proper nutrition, health care or other necessities.

So, for Elizabeth, it’s probably not a big surprise that her health deteriorated when she became pregnant by an American soldier. She gave birth to her twin boys in 1946. While she recovered, the twins were taken to Poland and given up for adoption to separate homes. Although she searched for her babies when she was finally able to, it was too late by that time. Records had been sealed. There was nowhere left to turn. And, it’s likely that there were lots of families seeking their lost family members in the days after World War II was over.