Was my father killed? | DNA Family Secrets - BBC

"I hope he had a life, maybe not the life he wanted... but he had a life"

Judy's father, a Chinese mariner who came to Britain to serve in World War II, was one of the thosands forcibly deported by the governemnt after the war. But was he killed before making it back to China?

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