Why my father was abandoned and the empathy I now have for his mother

Jane Messer grew up with a loving father who never really understood why as a child his mother left him and his older sister at a boarding school, so she decided to find out the full story and prove that he was in fact, loved.

Her father Michael was born in Berlin in the years between the two world and to escape Nazi Germany he was sent to live in England as a child.

There were a few fleeting visits but then Michael didn’t see his mother again for another 13 years and he always sa...