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Bettine Le Beau was separated from her parents at a young age and was taken to two concentration camps during the Holocaust. She eventually escaped from Camp De Gurs on the border of Spain and headed to France, where she (and another girl, "Henriette") was hidden by Marthe and Abel Marre - a middle-aged, childless Catholic couple who owned a secluded farm. On Christmas Eve 1942, a truck dropped the two 10 year-olds by the side of a main road, saving their lives. She was reunited with her parents and brother after the war.

She went to England in 1945, where she attended Pitman's College in Southampton Row. Le Beau went on to work as a model, actress, broadcaster, cabaret artiste, lecturer, portrait painter, sculptor, graphologist, and a facilitator for a Yiddish language circle. She has worked in radio, on a woman's program for solving problems. She has founded a cosmetic business along with a charity called The Feminine Touch. Le Beau is perhaps best known worldwide for her appearances on The Benny Hill Show (1969) (1971-72) and her small part on an episode of Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner (1967) ("A, B and C"). She became a public speaker and authored a book, "Help Yourself to Happiness".

The younger child of two young Polish Jews, Rachel and Leopold Fallek, young Bettine (born Betty Fallek) enjoyed a &quot;fun and carefree&quot; life until May 1940, when Germany invaded Belgium. So began a series of often worrying adventures for the eight-year-old and her brother Harry, four years her senior. They owed their lives to the brave work of the French-Jewish humanitarian organization Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants, to whom Le Beau&#39;s biography, &quot;Hide and Seek&quot; (Mardibooks, 2013; ISBN 978-1-909227-17-0), was dedicated.

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