'Yearning for my father' - British-born woman looking for dad who could have been deported to Singapore after WWII


Barbara Ong Janecek's “stolen” father, Mr John Ong, might have a family in Singapore after he was deported from Britain in 1946. - PHOTOS: TOM ST JOHN GRAY, COURTESY OF BARBARA ONG via The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): She has never been able to celebrate Father’s Day, said 79-year-old Barbara Ong Janecek, whose Chinese father was believed to have been deported to Singapore from Liverpool, Britain, in 1946 after World War II ended.

Her father, Mr John Ong, was a merchant seaman who was born around 1920. He and her Eurasian mother Eileen Hing married in Liverpool in 1943, with the marriage certificate stating that Mrs Janecek’s grandfather was a tea merchant named Lingsai Ong.

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