Against All Odds: Story of Kurt Pick

by Jennifer Henderson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860642527
• ISBN13: 9781860642524
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.7"