Rachel Livchitz, his mother, who had studied for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris, moved with her two sons to Brussels. She comes from a wealthy Bessarabian Jewish family, and frequents the field of theosophy integrating the community life of Doctor Nyssen (La Monada) which attracted artists and intellectuals. Her children frequen- ted the Uccle Athenaeum, a veritable melting pot of free thinkers and resistance figh- ters, where they worked alongside Robert Leclercg, Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon. Teenager, Alexandre falls in love with a teacher adept of Montessori pe- dagogy. The family si asked to leave the community and settle not far from there, ave- nue Brugmann. At that time, the Livchitz brothers frequented the left-wing intellectu- al milieu of Hertz Jospa and his wife Yvonne. Rachel Livchitz, Alexandre and Your then frequent the Atelier Marcel Hastir, as well as Robert Leclercg, Ilya Prigogine, Sergej Rzepkowicz. Ifthe Germans confis- cated the theosophy library, the workshop nonetheless remains an important bastion of this philosophy and a starting point for young resistance fighters, who listen to the BBC and participate in the distribution of leaflets and newspapers illegals. Following a denunciation, he and his brother are betraved and the van that was to drive them through France to England took them directly to the Gestapo. They are arrested on June 26, 1943. They were both condemned and executed at Tir National.