She said she has been searching for her father for more than 35 years, including calling all those whose name matched his.
Ms Barbara Ong Janecek's "stolen" father, Mr John Ong, might have a family in Singapore after he was deported from the UK in 1946.
The only photo she has of her dad was taken in Liverpool in 1943, showing a tall and handsome man at a wedding. The family was destitute after his disappearance, and always went hungry, added Mrs Janecek. They lived in the basement of a dilapidated Victorian house in Upper Stanhope Street in Liverpool.
“I was very upset when I found out. It was a lost opportunity and I think my dad was reaching out to us,” said Mrs Janecek who has three middle-aged sons with her late husband.In December 2023, she was here again, this time with Mr Tom St John Gray, a British freelance documentary director who featured her and others in a recent documentary on deported Chinese seamen from Liverpool.
“It’s very possible many thousands of young Singaporeans today are related to this astonishing story without ever knowing it,” he said. “And one of those many thousands might hold Barbara’s missing puzzle piece.”
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