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Against all odds : the story of Kurt Pick / Jennifer Henderson.
LIBRA D810.J4 H424 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henderson, Jennifer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pick, Kurt, 1912-.
- Pick, Kurt.
- Jewish refugees--Europe--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives -- Jewish.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 203 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Radcliffe Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- Kurt Pick was born in 1912, the only child of Austrian Jewish parents. In 1938, he had to leave his home in Vienna, fleeing the Nazi persecution of the Jews. He was captured but escaped and succeeded in being smuggled into Brussels, where he existed in 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. Then Germany invaded Belgium, the 600 residents were evacuated and they joined the immense tide of refugee clogging the roads. Kurt survived the air attacks to reach Avesnes, but with the Germans now in occupation, Kurt snatched the first opportunity to leave Belgium, taking the job of baker at a boarding school in the Condroz. He soon discovered this was sheltering many Jews and was used as a center for the Resistance. After the Germans raided the school in 1943, Kurt was permanently on the run until at last, in September 1944, the Americans arrived to liberate Liege and the Germans were seen to be retreating. Almost all Kurt's family perished. It is a tribute to his courage that he survives without bitterness, his story touched with warmth and humor, his integrity intact.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Brussels 1
- 1 December 1938 3
- 2 December 1938-June 1939 21
- Part II Marneffe and Brussels 49
- 3 June 1939-May 1940 51
- 4 May-June 1940 75
- 5 June 1940-July 1942 95
- Part III Bassines and Liege 125
- 6 July 1942-October 1943 127
- 7 October 1943-September 1944 160
- Some of the People in the Book 200.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1860642527
- OCLC:
- 39752637
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