Behar Family

From The Stasi Files

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Family History

The Behar family patriarch was Albert Behar who was a Dutch Jew who was granted a British passport that was partly a reward for his service with the British Army in World War 1. During the War, Albert was granted an OBE, the Legion of Honour, was on Field Marshal Haigs staff and he inhaled phosegene from a German gas attack which left him with laboured breathing a blue rim around his lips. He lived in Spengensekade in Rotterdam, but moved to Scheveningen once his condition was diagnosed as fatal. Peritonitis set in before he died in April 1936.

His wife, Catherine Gertui Behar, had a sister who was married to Henri Curiel.

Albert & Catherine had two daughters and one son, George Behar.

Catherine and her two daughters escaped on the day the Germans invaded Holland, the 10th of May 1940, by making their way to the Hook of Holland and taken aboard one of the three British Royal Navy destroyers sent to pick up the Dutch Royal family and members of the government. The three ladies during the war lived on a farm near High Wycombe and changed their surname to Blake.

References

ISBN 0583134866 Shadow of Shadows by Ted Allbeury