Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei whitianga - I whanau a Mamlok ko Ursula Meyer i Berlin, Tiamana, i roto i te whanau Hurai, ka ako i te piana me te hanganga me te Ahorangi Gustav Ernest me Emily Weissgerber kia rere ra ano tona whanau i te Tiamana Nazi i muri i te pogrom o te motu
i te tau 1938. Na nga waahanga manene a Amerika, ka neke te whanau ki Guayaquil, Ecuador. I manene a Ursula ki New York City i te tau 1940 ki te haere ki te Mannes School of Music, i whakawhiwhia ki a ia he karahipi katoa i runga i tetahi o ana mahi. I whai mai ōna mātua i te tau 1941. I riro ia hei tangata whenua o Amerika i te tau 1945.