Chris Mullin

One of the lucky ones: Hella Pick escapes Nazi Germany

The Guardian journalist shares her memories of the Kindertransport, her education in Britain and her long career as a foreign correspondent

Hella Pick. Credit: Cavendish/Shutterstock 
issue 27 March 2021
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Hella Pick is one of that vanishing generation of Jewish refugees who arrived in Britain on the eve of the second world war, courtesy of the Kindertransport. An only child of separated parents, born and brought up in Vienna, she was luckier than most: her mother got out soon afterwards.

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