Woman's Story Of Leaving War-Torn England Now Chronicled In Book

Whitefish Bay resident Jayne Jordan, now 82, remembers reassuring her mother when Jayne was nine-years-old that everything would be OK as she left England for the United States in 1940, according to a story in the Journal Sentinel.

Her mother, Maureen Jaffe, feared that the Germans would occupy England and she sent Jayne to the United States alone. The article tells how Jordan was sent to live with a host family in Fox Point and how she waited five years to be reunited with her mother. The story is about war-torn England, the painful decision hundreds of families had to make to spare their children and how they survived.

Now, Jon Helminiak, a family friend, has chronicled the survival story titled "This Token of Freedom," which is now available through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.