Fred Bild was born on August 7,1935 and is a Canadian former diplomat who served within Global Affairs Canada, the foreign ministry of Canada.
10 Facts About Fred Bild
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Fred Bild was born in Leipzig, Germany, on August 7,1935, to Joseph and Ida.
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Fred Bild's father was ordered to do forced labour in Limburg in the Netherlands.
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Fred Bild's mother asked the Committee for the Defence of Jews for help with finding hiding places for her two young sons.
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Fred Bild would spend the remainder of the war here, with the Robberechts family, one of only two families in the region to shelter Jewish children during the war.
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Fred Bild lived with his mother in Brussels until 1948, when they immigrated to Montreal, Canada.
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Fred Bild reunited with Eva when they were students at Concordia University.
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The couple moved to London, where they married soon after arrival, and where Fred Bild earned a degree from University College London.
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Fred Bild applied for the Canadian foreign service exam in London, and was accepted to the foreign service in 1961.
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Fred Bild then served as minister-councillor at the Canadian Embassy in Paris.