Two Halves of a Life

158pp, [2]pp publisher's ads, various in-text black and white photographs. Laminated pictorial paper-covered boards. 8vo. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Karl Pole, a Jewish doctor in Germany before the second world war, was captured by the Gestapo but released.  In 1938, with his wife and daughter, he fled Nazi Germany for Switzerland and, eventually, the UK, where he changed his name to Kary.  The volume also describes parts of his mother's, Clara Loeb, life - she was a Viennese author and novelist  and her time in exile in the UK.