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Daniel Paprocki was a German born mischling identified as a "brown baby" of the post-WWII o

This is a good resrouce for anyone searching for relatives SearchingForYou.org
ask for Mary Ann. She is "an angle."
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It really does not matter how many children entered the U.S. with her assistance. Mabel Grammer took action creatively using the only method at her disposal.

Click here if you are a former:

Brown Baby living in the U.S., Canada or England
Brown Baby living in Germany
One of the Grammer Children
A child of Mr. & Mrs. Grammer
War baby or Brown baby in search of answers to my German past.

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U.S. soldier in search of his German born children in Germany
U.S. soldier in search of German born child living in the U.S.
German mother in search of her a child adopted in the U.S.

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All of the 'grammer children' share a hidden common bond. Doris McMillon, author of "Mixed Blessings,” suggested a reunion of former ‘brown babies.’ This could prove to be a healing event providing closure for those seeking identity among their "own kind" or reinvigorate those searching for their biological relatives. Thus, a reunion of Brown Babies is planned where we were last seen together in the U.S., the old Idlewild Airport section of now Kennedy Airport in N.Y. The tentative dates are October 3rd thru 9th of 2008.

This website is designed to provide resources and suggest alternatives for your search from the experiences and resources of others. Hopefully it can become a haven for healing and free expression during your search for identity. More significantly this site will be used to unite those once special children of “similar kind.”

There is a need for a comparative perspective on this age old debate. However, the ‘brown babies’ in the U.S. raise far more challenging questions toward such a debate.
Have they assimilated into the black community well?
Do we perceive ourselves as being Black, Afro-German, Afro-American, German American, Colored, White, Other, or just American?
…Or did we, as we grew older, make a “choice”?
What was it like growing up in the turbulent 60’s when “Papa had a brand new bag” and our friends were White or “Black and proud.”

Years ago Yara –Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria published an article in Europe entitled” Germany’s ‘Brown Baby Must Be Helped!

In a conversation with Doris McMillon, a former brown baby and author of the best seller, “Mixed Blessings”, she said, “… in America, you have to choose.” We were on a plane from Chicago to Washington. I was returning home from my first meeting with my biological extended family in early April of 2006. I was recalling the “Guess Who’s coming to Dinner” moment I experienced as I had dinner and met with my biological uncle and cousins. Several times that day I found myself questioning my American orientation and ‘racial’ identity.

After a long, 17 hour Scandinavian Airlines flight from Germany, the Grammer Children entered the U.S. at Idlewild Airport, now known as JFK, in New York. They were accepted and welcomed in the homes of Black families across the United States. States like “Alabama”, with laws against interracial marriages, created barriers for the adoption of brown babies thought to be the product of mixed relationships. This was evident in other the southern states within the U.S.