Helen MobachHelen Mobach was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She graduated with a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. from the University of Manitoba. Then she moved in order to pursue biochemical research at the University of California at Berkeley. She met and married Gerad Mobach in the Bay Area, California. Eventually they moved to Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. Helen substitute taught junior and senior high school in Abbotsford School District # 34 for 12 years. After that, she taught English as a Second Language to adult immigrants for 15 years under the umbrella of Abbotsford Community Services. In the 1980s, Helen translated her Dutch father-in-law's diary of the Japanese concentration camps in WWII Java. In 2020, she received the Dutch book Het geluk te overleven, which is partially based on that diary, and got permission to translate it. After almost 50 years of marriage, Gerard passed away in 2015 and left behind two lovely daughters and their families. Read More Read Less