I'm Adopted: The Podcast

Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.

Vanya Syron was adopted from a regional orphanage in Arkhangelsk, Russia in the late 1990s by his New Zealand parents.

With information that his parents held onto about his birth family, he managed to get a letter through to his Birth Mother in 2010. Since then, Vanya had lost contact but hopes to re-connect with her and his siblings in Arkhangelsk.

This is his story.

Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.

Romanian adoptee Alex (Alexander) Kuch was adopted from Cluj-Napoca, Romania at the age of two by his German parents. His family then moved to New Zealand in 2006. Alex shares his journey of his reconnections with Romania and his birth family.

He goes through his story, from the beginnings to revisiting Romania later on in his early adult years.  This is his story.

Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the help from our friends at MyHeritage.

Mother of three Anya Gibson, lives right down in the far south of New Zealand. She was adopted at the age of four from a regional orphanage (Number 12) inside of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Prior to her adoption, she was looked after by her grandmother but found out later that she was placed into the orphanage due to her grandmother not being able to look after her. 

She has managed to track down connections but there are still many questions unanswered. She shared with me her journey from the very beginning.  This is her story.

Simulcast from an Adoption story. Viktoria was born in the North of Russia, in a city called Severodvinsk. She was adopted at the age five by her New Zealand parents who also adopted another child from the neighbourhood city and my birth city, Arkhangelsk.

She connected with her birth mother in 2019 after she reached out to me for help. She is still however, continuing her journey with those connections overseas and hopes to meet more of her family around Russia and Ukraine.

This is her story.

Alexei was born in Eastern Ukraine to then moving with his biological family to Velikiye Luki, Pskov, Russia.

He was adopted into a New Zealand family at the age of eight. At an early age he was diagnosed with a rare heart condition, Eisenmenger Syndrome. He shares with me his journey, his outlook on life and the connections he has found overseas with his birth family.

This is his story.

Recast from our I'm Adopted - Talk, Live Stream. This week Alex Gilbert, Alex Kuch, Daria Rottenberk, Christopher Breedlove and Janna Lamb revisited their High School Years, what was different in High School as an adoptee, what emotions you might have been going through and with yourself, connecting with your own identity. If you have a question to ask for our next live stream, visit imadopted.org/talk.

In this podcast episode, we bring to you the cast from our live Facebook video stream. This week we talk about viewing adoption as young adults with Adoptees Alex Gilbert, Daria Rottenberk, Alex Kuch, Janna Lamb, Chris Breedlove and Katie Zucker.  Connecting with more of you around the world, wherever we are. You can watch the video version of this over at Facebook.com/imadoptedOrg

In this podcast episode, we bring to you the cast from our live Facebook video stream. Thank you Russian-American Adoptee Daria, Romanian-New Zealand Adoptee Alex K and Russian-NZ Adoptee Janna for joining us . Connecting with more of you around the world, wherever we are. You can watch the video version of this over at Facebook.com/imadoptedOrg

In this podcast episode, we bring to you the cast from our live Facebook video stream. This week on the I'm Adopted - Talk live cast we talk with Alex Kuch, Katie Zucker, Kristine Freark and Robert Clifford to talk about those burning questions for adoptees. Connecting with more of you around the world, wherever we are. You can watch the video version of this over at Facebook.com/imadoptedOrg

In this Episode of I'm Adopted, Adoptee Alex Kuch is hosting and he talks about the relationships between adoptive siblings.