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A story of Jewish survival in Nazi-occupied Belgium. Kurt Pick was born in 1912 in Vienna to a middle-class assimilated Jewish family. In December 1938, after the Anschluss, he entered Belgium illegally. In June 1939 he was sent to a refugee camp in Marneffe, where he experienced the Nazi attack on Belgium. After an unsuccessful attempt to flee to France, Pick returned to Brussels, where he became exposed to Nazi anti-Jewish measures. In June 1942 he managed to obtain work as a baker in a rural boarding school in Bassines; on the way from Brussels to Bassines, Pick changed his ID card and appeared in the school as a non-Jew. The school principal, Cougnet, and the teachers knew that Pick was a Jew and helped him. After Cougnet was arrested as a resistance member, Pick fled from Bassines and changed places many times, assisted by friendly Belgians; he was happy to meet the liberating Allied armies in Liege. After the war he settled in Britain.
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Alma saved the lives of some four dozen members of the orchestra; not one was sent to the gas, though she herself died in the camp of sudden illness."--BOOK JACKET.
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