Against all odds : the story of Kurt Pick / by Jennifer Henderson
by Henderson, Jennifer
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- ISBN 10
- 1860642527
- ISBN 13
- 9781860642524
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London : Radcliffe Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 203 pages; Physical desc. : xvi, 203p. , 4 leaves of plates : ill. , map, ports. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Subject: Pick, Kurt, 1912- --World War, 1939-1945 --Evacuation of civilians --Jews --Austria --Belgium --Biography. Summary: This story of survival against all odds tells what befell Kurt Pick, an Austrian Jew, after he left his Vienna home and fled the Nazi persecution of his race. He was captured whilst attempting to walk across the German border into Belgium, but escaped and succeeded in being smuggled into Brussels, where he existed in constant fear, freezing cold and near starvation. In the summer of 1939 he was appointed Administrator of a camp for Jewish refugee families at Marneffe, near Brussels, becoming their official link with the outside world. When Germany invaded Belgium, the 600 residents were evacuated and joined the immense tide of refugees clogging the roads. Pick survived the air attacks and reached Avesnes, where he was mistaken for a spy, almost shot, and then nearly lynched by civilians. With the Germans now in occupation, he walked 100 miles back to Brussels. In 1942 he left to become a baker at a boarding school which he found was sheltering many Jews and was being used as a centre for the Resistance. When the Germans raided the school, he bluffed his way out and escaped to Liege. From that point Pick was permanently on the run until the Americans liberated Liege in September 1944. He survived, but was to discover that most of his family had perished.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Against all odds : the story of Kurt Pick / by Jennifer Henderson
- Author
- Henderson, Jennifer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1860642527
- ISBN 13
- 9781860642524
- Publisher
- London : Radcliffe Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
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