02:00pm - 04:00pm  Fragments that Remain: The Search for My Mother's Lost Family

Speaker: Jennie Milne In this presentation, Jennie Milne will describe her extraordinary journey to understand her mother’s mysterious background. Elizabeth Lis, Jennie's mother, was born to a Polish woman in London in 1943 and placed in a wartime babies' home in Devon, England. Elizabeth's mother, known only by the name on her daughter’s birth certificate as ‘Ellen Lis,’ did not return to collect her baby after the war ended as she had promised, and Elizabeth was subsequently raised by the matron of the Home and her surname changed. Elizabeth’s father was a highly decorated Polish Officer under British command. Ellen had also ...