Testimonies
This section gathers texts in which Olmo Gómez Aldaz speaks from his direct experience and from more than fifteen years of activism, research and critical elaboration on adoption, child protection, stolen babies, child trafficking, identity, filiation, democratic memory and the María Madre Association.
These testimonies form part of a public body of work built around the restitution of birth identity, the recovery of origin, the judicial recognition of biological filiation, dual filiation and the denunciation of the structures that made identity abduction and irregular adoption possible.
This testimonial line brings together the two main fields of work of the website: the critique of adoption and of child protection models based on the erasure of origin, and the research on stolen babies, child trafficking, irregular adoptions and democratic memory.
Testimonial line
The testimonial line gathers texts written from lived experience, personal memory and public speech. Its centre lies in what happened, what was recovered, what was documented and what was said in spaces of intervention, encounter, denunciation or critical reflection.
In these texts, personal experience is joined to sustained research over many years on adoption, filiation, child trafficking, stolen babies, child protection and democratic memory. Testimony appears as a form of situated knowledge, supported by documents, genealogy, DNA, judicial proceedings, historical archives and conceptual elaboration.
The María Madre Association of Bilbao occupies a relevant place within this line. The personal experience of Olmo Gómez Aldaz is linked to a concrete network of abduction, transfer and irregular adoption of newborn babies, and to later research on its actors, mechanisms, cover structures and consequences.
The testimonies published in this section make it possible to read adoption, child protection and baby trafficking from a concrete life crossed by those structures.
Publications
The publications in this section are interventions, statements and texts prepared for public spaces. Each text preserves its context of origin: title, date, place, public framework, documentary version, publication records and access links.
This page functions as an index of the testimonies published within the work of Olmo Gómez Aldaz. Each entry links to its own page, prepared for web reading, indexing, documentary consultation and access to the corresponding PDF or repository.
The publications gathered in this line address adoptive experience, recovery of origin, biological filiation, dual filiation, identity harm, stolen babies, democratic memory, Stockholm syndrome of the adopted person and the abolition of adoption.
I am going to speak about resilience: Resilience against adoption
Testimonial text prepared for the open panel "Different voices", within the conference "Paths of Resilience", on resilience against adoption, birth identity, failed adoption, dual filiation, stolen babies, democratic memory, Stockholm syndrome of the adopted person and the abolition of adoption.
Available on Zenodo:
Spanish · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20773484
English version:
Translation pending.
What this line documents
This line documents the experience of a person abducted at birth, irregularly adopted, registered under a substituted identity and restored decades later through DNA, personal research, judicial recognition of biological filiation and recognition as a victim within the framework of democratic memory.
It also documents a trajectory of activism and research on adoption and child trafficking. The texts address birth identity, filiation, surnames, genealogy, adoptive harm, dual filiation, democratic memory, child protection and the need for forms of care that preserve origin.
Testimonial speech makes it possible to bring together in a single line lived experience, documentary research, legal critique, social reading and an abolitionist position against adoption.
Recommended reading order
As an entry point into this testimonial line, I am going to speak about resilience directly presents resilience against adoption, the recovery of birth identity, dual filiation, stolen babies, democratic memory and the abolition of adoption.
From there, the route continues through the other areas of Work: critical texts on adoption, research on stolen babies, reports on the María Madre Association, judgments on filiation and dual filiation, and democratic memory documentation.