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THE KID OFFICER

 

​From his 6th floor balcony in downtown Vienna, eight-year-old 

Friederich "Fred" Biermann watches with excitement as 
Hitler's parade passes, celebrating Germany's takeover of Austria.

The year is 1938, and Friederich is Jewish.

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The next day, his blonde girlfriend fails to show up for their 
usual walk to school; and the teacher locks bewildered Fred 
in a small, dark closet for the entire day.

Pulled from school by his parents, Fred then watches as the Nazis
seize his father's transportation business, and paint swastikas 
on the fleet of bright orange, familiar "Biermann" trucks.

A family friend becomes a Nazi official and paints a swastika 
on the Biermanns' door to protect them.

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The Biermanns' apartment becomes a safehouse. The Biermanns soon

decide to flee with just the clothes on their backs. After being rejected
by Switzerland, they cross the French border on foot

under the cover of night.
 

After living in a squalid hotel for carnival workers in Paris, Fred's mother 
negotiates with a ship captain in Marseilles for transport to Palestine. 
The Biermanns sail in the bowels of the ship with the horses of 
French Foreign Legionnaires, who let Fred ride the horses, to his delight.

The Biermanns emerge from the European ship into the 
Middle Eastern World of Palestine.

Eight year old Fred's life is about to change forever.