FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Morgan Freeman interviews Izidor Ruckel for new docuseriesThe Story of Us with Morgan Freeman highlights the power of love with Ruckel’s story LOS ANGELES, Calif., October 2, 2017 – Morgan Freeman interviewed Izidor Ruckel for the six-part docuseries The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman, premiering on National Geographic in the U.S. on October 11…
Los Angeles Times reporter John M. Glionna traveled to Colorado in 2015 to interview Izidor Ruckel. The meeting reunited Glionna and Ruckel for the first time since 1991. Glionna’s first story covered Ruckel’s transition into his new adoptive family after arriving in America at age eleven. What is Ruckel’s life like now, almost 25 years later? Click here to read…
Izidor Ruckel works the night shift at a Denver Walmart. Adopted from Romania in 1991 at age 11, he also speaks around the United States about the plight of Romanian orphans, especially those with special needs … Read the full story here at World Magazine
For the first 11 years of his life, every person Izidor Ruckel loved, he lost. He contracted polio as an infant in Romania in the early 1980s, and his parents left him at a hospital and never went back … Read the full story from The San Diego Union-Tribune
Parents do a lot more than make sure a child has food and shelter, researchers say. They play a critical role in brain development … Read more and listen to the story from NPR’s Morning Edition
Orphan no more: Adoption freed Izidor Ruckel from the hell of his Romanian orphanage. But his physical and mental scars aren’t easily escapable. He picks up a camera — the tool that hastened his rescue — to try to spare others from suffering … Read the full story and watch the video at The Washington…
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