My aunt, Elena Laihovetsky, was evacuated to Australia in 1940, where she later met and married a Canadian airman Charles Schwenger. She moved to Toronto Canada after the war. <Read more ...>
My mother, Helene Marie Caudron Brooks, was the 2nd of the three daughters of Maurice (Kleber) and Marcelle Caudron. She was born in Ohain, Nord, France and as a young girl went with her family to live in Singapore for a few years before moving with them in her teens to Hong Kong in the early 1930s where her father set up a trading company operating between France and Hong Kong. He family retained their property in northern France and she travelled there often. <Read more ...>
