Henny King was born in 1935 in Großpetersdorf, Southern Burgenland where her father Eugene Lowy (Eugen Löwy) owned a general store. Her mother Maria Braun came from Baden and taught English and French. After the Nazis came into power in 1938, the store and all the family properties were seized by the Nazi authorities. Eugen and Maria, together with Henny and her older brother Fred (Friedrich) fled to Vienna, where her father paid for visas and tickets to Argentina, but the agent fled with the money. Maria´s sister and family lived in Portugal, and in September 1938 the Lowys received visas for Lisbon where her mother became secretary for the "Jewish Joint Distribution Committee". In 1940 a refugee ship from blockaded France passed by Lisbon and within days the Jewish Community, realising there was no room for the adults, arranged for all its children to be evacuated to New York, Henny and Fred amongst them. Two years later Eugene and Maria obtained visas for Canada and Henny and Fred joined them in Montreal. Henny married, had four children, lived in Mexico, USA, Manchester and London, where amongst other posts she organised major city festivals, the last celebrating the 800th Anniversary of Dundee, Scotland which is now her home.