 They met in Calcutta, India, where Gustav Kars (himself born in 1913 in Shanghai) met Mila, a qualified doctor (who had volunteered to work in a Red Cross hospital after being widowed in New Zealand).Jean-Rodolphe - Gustav's first child and Mila's second - was born in 1947.Deciding that Europe would offer their children the possibility of a superior education, the Kars family left India for France.