Ms. Stein, I had never heard about your son's case. It is Kafkaesque what the authorities did to your family. I don't understand it at all! It is evil and horrible, what happened to you.
But, I want to tell you that you are the epitome of what it means to be a mother! You are a true mother! All these years later, and you continue, relentlessly, to try to find your precious son. He is very lucky to have been born to you.
Roberto Yáñez Betancourt y Honecker was born 1974/5. Dirk vanished in 1979.
So how could Roberto be Dirk?
It is not clear that this grandson ever appeared in the public consciousness before age 3 or 4 or so, despite the fact that his was a very famous family. There are no baby pictures of him that have surfaced publicly, only older photos. So, they could have simply stated suddenly, that they had a grandson, who was born a few years before. As this was the very secretive family of a communist dictatorships' leader, it is more than possible.
Another question, perhaps I've just missed this: Are there photos of Sonja and her husband's other children around? Would be interesting to compare them to this gentleman.
I did see a photo somewhere in a slideshow of the Honecker family, of a baby that appears to be Sonja's daughter/Roberto's sister. I believe she bears a striking resemblance to Roberto Yanez.
I must say that Roberto Yanez, in my opinion, looks very, very much like Sonja. I think their faces are almost identical.
here´s a new video a chilean reporter made about my missing son Dirk and that possible match Roberto Y. from Chile:
Dirck Schiller: La historia de un secuestro de hace 33 años PODRÃA ESTAR EN CHILE! - YouTube
It is a very good thing that this is being publicized in Spanish. But I believe that, while your son and the young pictures of Roberto are very, very similar (they could be brothers or twins), I do think Roberto looks very much like he could be Sonja's son, even Margot's grandson.
Many little boys had a similar appearance to Dirk. My own brother resembled him tremendously. But my brother (Mick) was born in 1965. Unfortunately, that makes it harder to pinpoint who Dirk may be living as, now.
This is an incredibly beautiful video. Whoever made it put a tremendous amount of work into it. Excellent!
Here's what I would do. I would create a facebook page for Dirk in Spanish, Russian, Polish and Dutch. There is already one in German and English).
I would also translate the lengthy UK article about Dirk's case (the one with the blue background), into Russian, Polish, Spanish and Dutch and post it on the various facebook pages. Then, each separate facebook page should hit "like" on missing children facebook pages in countries that speak the same language. That will get your pages noticed.
Finally, I would make Spanish, Russian, Polish, German and Dutch youtube versions of the very moving youtube video Dotr posted, and link to those videos on the various facebook pages.
I see tons of people from every country on youtube but they tend to view mostly videos in their own language. I see lots of Russians on there. If Dirk was taken to Russia, it is paramount that social media cites in the Russian language are utilized. That goes for Dutch and Spanish, etc., as well.
In this day and age, posting on-line flyers is not enough. Even websites are not viewed so much anymore. Facebook and youtube are the way to go, in my opinion.
Ms. Stein, I know you will never give up. I can imagine that it must be very hard, if not impossible, not to despair. But, your little boy was taken somewhere, alive. There is no reason that you cannot find the truth one day. I believe you will find him. He is out there and you have never given up. You will find him.
... just make sure he knows it's "heidi from germany" !!
