¿ªÔÆÌåÓýMy goodness, Jude, you had some pain there. These things all leave their mark, don¡¯t they? Then, you are just left to live with them as best you can. I sometimes wish I were not so good at remembering stuff. Should be glad, though, that I do still have a good memory!Best, Susan On 13 Jun 2023, at 23:50, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote: I was dragged to Australia on forged papers. My own father refused to sign documents for me to leave the country. My late stepfather who had been POW of Germans 4 years in Thorn Poland Stalag XXA - knew a bit about forgery and spent some hours forging my Dad¡¯s signature.
I did get the chance in a few moments to warn my Dad of the dastardly plot to take me to Australia but in that instant he didn¡¯t believe me and said it was impossible because he hadn¡¯t signed.? Headmistress and my teacher at Earlsfield school had my mother and stepfather in to try the dissuade them from moving me - I was top of the school and they had a fast track edu planned for me, but the no avail.? Life was very difficult for me in Australia in the early days. My mother had a cruel streak. When I was early 30¡¯s I made a search with Red Cross and found my father again and my husband and I got on a plane together to go see him in Ramsgate. I hoped it was closure of a kind for him. You come to realise though you can¡¯t put that great gap of time back.? I guess at no time the British gov or Aust government actually check with my father that he actually signed and it was authentic, and as the man had had a breakdown over losing his marriage he was in no condition to action. Life has some twists for some of us.? ??Jude? On 14 Jun 2023, at 1:25 am, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:
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