Hella Henrietta Pick CBE (born 24 April 1929) is a British-Austrian journalist of Austrian descent.Hella Pick was born in Vienna, Austria into a middle-class Jewish family. Her parents divorced when she was three years old and she was raised by her mother. Following Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938 and a visit from the Gestapo, Pick’s mother decided to leave Austria. Pick was put on a Kindertransport and arrived in Britain in March 1939. Her mother obtained a visa and joined her three months later. Wikipedia