Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whānau ia i te taone o Chernivtsi i Ukraine i ēnei rā, tae noa ki te tau 1940 he wāhanga o Romania. Ko tōna pāpā he Romanian, ko tōna whaea he Polish. I muri i te Rōpū Whero
I nohoia a Chernivtsi i te 1940, i wehe a Margaret i te whanau ka noho ki tetahi whare tamariki a te Soviet, mai i reira i whakaorangia ai e tana kuia ka nekehia ki Romania. I tukuna te papa o Margaret ki Hiberia, i mate ki reira, engari i hoki mai tona whaea ki te kāinga i muri noa iho i nga tau maha o te herehere i Irkutsk.