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Marcelina Burzec

'Stolen children': New documentary explores fate of infants classed as dead but sold for adoption

There are thousand of stories of children stolen and illegally sold for adoption. Across Europe, it's estimated around 100,000 mothers were told during a period dating back to the 1970s that their newborn sons and daughters had died and their bodies were never released to them.

A new documentary 'Stolen Children' by Martyna Wojciechowska and Jowita Baraniecka, which premiered in Warsaw at the WatchDocs festival, explores this inhuman practice.

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