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 …
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Washington Post: A lost boy finds his calling
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 …
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