The Boys from Brazil
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1:07:00
Who?
1:07:02
Frau Maloney will not answer that.
1:07:04
They'd helped me after the war...
1:07:07
..and wanted me to return the favour
by getting a job in an adoption agency.

1:07:11
Did they say why?
1:07:13
If you let me finish, you'll find out.
1:07:19
The Rush-Gaddis agency hired me.
1:07:22
The Comrades Organisation
was interested in rejects.

1:07:26
Couples who were denied children
because the husband was too old.

1:07:30
I looked for applications from families
with Nordic Christian backgrounds,...

1:07:36
..in which the husband was born
between 1910 and 1914, and the wife...

1:07:41
..between 1933 and 1937.
1:07:45
The husband had to work
in something like the civil service.

1:07:49
And both spouses
had to be in perfect health.

1:07:52
- Did they explain why they wanted this?
- That information is not relevant.

1:07:57
I was expected to obey my orders,
not to question them.

1:08:01
This I did, as I always had.
1:08:04
About a year after that...
1:08:07
..I was ordered to contact applicants and
offer them a healthy white baby boy,...

1:08:12
..with New York State adoption papers.
1:08:15
They were to pay me $500.
1:08:18
After their medical certificates had been
cleared, they would receive the babies.

1:08:23
We would meet at a motel
near Kennedy Airport.

1:08:26
That used to be Idlewild.
1:08:28
The babies were delivered to me,...
1:08:31
..usually by stewardesses
with Varig Airlines.

1:08:34
Varig?
1:08:36
Did the babies all come from Brazil?
1:08:39
Is that important to you?
1:08:43
What did they look like?
1:08:45
They were all beautiful little boys...
1:08:48
..with black hair, piercing blue eyes...
1:08:53
If you're looking for a long-lost Jewish
grandson, he was not among them.


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