Editing H. A. Rey (section)

==Early life==
Hans Augusto Reyersbach was born in [[Hamburg]], [[German Empire]] on September 16, 1898. He and his wife, Margret, were both German [[Jews]]. They first met in Hamburg at Margret's sister's 16th birthday party. They met again in [[Brazil]], where Rey was working as a salesman of bathtubs and Margret had gone to escape the rise of [[Nazism]] in [[Nazi Germany|Germany]]. They got married in 1935 and moved to [[Paris, France]] in August of that year.<ref name=nwda/> They lived in Montmartre and fled Paris in June 1940 on bicycles, carrying the ''Curious George'' manuscript with them.<ref name=Boston/><ref>{{cite web | url    = http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/cgsite/authors.shtml
| title      = About H. A. and Margret Rey
| last       = Stoddard
| first      = Dimitri
| date       = May 2, 1980
| publisher  = Mifflin Harcourt
| access-date= February 23, 2015}}</ref> They received visas in [[Bayonne]] under instructions from the Portuguese consul in [[Bordeaux]], [[Aristides de Sousa Mendes]], which enabled them to leave Europe via Portugal.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sousa Mendes Foundation: Visa Recipients |url=https://sousamendesfoundation.org/family/rey}}</ref>