Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I whanau ia i te taone nui o Ukraine o Chernivtsi, tae noa ki te tau 1940 he waahanga no Romania. Ko tōna pāpā he Romanian, ko tōna whaea he Polish. Whai muri i te whakaekenga o te ope Whero ki Chernivtsi
I te tau 1940, i wehe atu a Margaret i te whanau, ka noho ki tetahi whare tamariki o te Soviet, 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.