You can probably assume he would have liked that. This exhibition and that his poems will be shown to the Germans again. The Dortmund Jew Curt Bloch fled to the Netherlands in 1933 and wrote poetry against Hitler in his hiding place in Enschede between 1943 and 1954. Being noticed by posterity was certainly a driving force. One of his poems says: “Perhaps you will see the poems that I wrote in your language in later times, and if you did, I would really like it.” Bloch hoped to be able to return the favor with world fame to the Dutch man who hid him under the roof with his wife and saved his life. He is said to have promised him that he could later give school classes a tour of his house. That’s not how it happened. Bloch’s work remained unknown.
Curt Bloch permanent creation in the Jewish Museum Berlin – Culture
