When the mother of Ivonne Ranisch was told by East German hospital authorities that her young son Christoph had suddenly died, she found it hard to believe.
"We were not a very conforming family, my parents were running their own business, which was something that was not looked upon very well," says Ivonne Ranish, that's why my mother believed that taking her son away from her was some sort of evil punishment by the former communist regime.


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