Irma de Jong Tworoger was born in the tiny village of Wieschowa near the town Gleiwitz (Gliwice) in the ‘German Reich’.
The parents and their two children Irma and Hugo moved to Gleiwitz where the father opened a retail shop.
However, Irma's mother died tragically in 1908 when Irma was only twelve and her brother fourteen.
Their father got remarried and in 1911 a new daughter was born, but the sec…