The website Wo Ist Felix (
Wo ist Felix ? ) was created by his mother in hope to find her son. It's all so intersting and hertbreaking at the same time. Here's how she described the disappearance of her son :
"December 28, 1984 It's Friday and a cold, wet winter day in Dresden. We still need a few little things and decide to go on a little shopping spree. Our son Felix is 5 months old. We take him with us in the stroller. At around 4 p.m. we reach the CENTRUM department store on Pragerstrasse in Dresden city center. Felix sleeps peacefully. Since all the childcare places there are occupied, we park our stroller (while Felix continues to sleep peacefully) at the Waisenhausstrasse side entrance next to many other strollers. Many of them also contain sleeping babies. In 1984, leaving the stroller in front of the department store was completely normal. When we come back from shopping 30 minutes later, we can't believe our eyes: FELIX IS GONE! The stroller is in the same place, but it is empty.
Our son was kidnapped!"
On this same website it's also told the whole story about the kid that was found (now named Martin) and that she thinks may have been "exchanged" with her own son.
"Felix's abduction was not a normal child abduction, but is part of a very special criminal case. This criminal case began on December 28, 1984 at around 4:00 p.m. at the “Waisenhausstrasse” side entrance of what was then the CENTRUM department store in downtown Dresden. Felix's parents wanted to buy a few things for Grandma Marga's upcoming birthday. The department store had a playroom on the “Waisenhausstrasse” side where parents could leave their children to be looked after while they shopped. Infants and strollers could also be dropped off. Unfortunately, on this cold, wet December afternoon, the stroller spaces in the child care center were all occupied. So Felix's parents decided to park their stroller with Felix sleeping peacefully next to the side entrance to "Waisenhausstrasse". He wasn't alone, there were other strollers there with babies sleeping in them too. Shortly before 4:30 p.m. the shopping was done - Felix's stroller was empty. The search measures initiated immediately by the police were unsuccessful - Felix remained missing. A sudden turnaround occurred on January 6, 1985. Residents of Friedrich-Engels-Straße 11 (today Königstraße 11) reported to the police that they had found Felix in the hallway. Everyone's disappointment was indescribable - the toddler found was not Felix. But who was this boy who had been abandoned in the cardboard box so that he had to be found? Nobody missed him! Who is he and what is the connection to Felix's kidnapping? Who he is is still unclear today. The investigators discovered the connection to Felix's kidnapping step by step. The little boy, abandoned in the hallway on Friedrich-Engels-Strasse, was named Martin. “Martin” was apparently seriously ill as an infant and was therefore cared for in inpatient intensive care over a period of several weeks in the first six months of his life. It can be assumed that "Martin's" parents were not satisfied with his development, that they believed that he was still ill, that they feared that "Martin" could not be adequately cared for in their homeland, and that they were afraid of theirs had relatives (what a sick kid you have there), ... Other emotional factors certainly played a role in the decision to abandon their own biological child in a foreign country and adopt a healthy foreign child in its place. After “Martin” was “successfully” released on the morning of January 6, 1985, his parents took the train with Felix to their homeland and have not been able to find them to this day."
