03641cam a2200397 i 4500 1714286938 TxAuBib 20241115120000.0 211013s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021952858 9781541751194 hardcover 1541751191 hardcover (OCoLC)1275358770 TxAuBib rda Cadbury, Deborah, author. The school that escaped the Nazis : the true story of the schoolteacher who defied Hitler / Deborah Cadbury. First US edition. New York : Public Affairs, 2022. 440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in Great Britain in 2022 by Two Roads."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-421) and index. 'I could no longer raise children in honesty and freedom' -- '[Bunce Court] school falls short of the usual requirements' -- 'No match for the raging mob' -- 'The Gestapo arrived early one morning' -- 'I did not trust a soul...' -- 'The children were used to having everything taken away...' -- 'The only important thing was to save life' -- 'How stupid to cry when the next minute I would be dead...' -- 'We were shocked when they came for the cook...' -- 'Everyone knew not to get on the death cars' -- 'It wasn't enough to just know...' -- 'What kind of animal had I become?' -- 'This was something the children should not see' -- 'The school turned me back into a human being'. In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England.But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a rundown manor house in Kent would test her to the limit. As the news from Europe continued to darken, Anna rescued successive waves of fleeing children and, when war broke out, she and her pupils faced a second exodus. One by one countries fell to the Nazis and before long unspeakable rumors began to circulate. Red Cross messages stopped and parents in occupied Europe vanished. In time, Anna would take in orphans who had given up all hope; the survivors of unimaginable horrors. Anna's school offered these scarred children the love and security they needed to rebuild their lives, showing them that, despite everything, there was still a world worth fighting for. Featuring moving first-hand testimony, and drawn from letters, diaries and present-day interviews, The School That Escaped the Nazis is a dramatic human tale that offers a unique child's-eye perspective on Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. It is also the story of one woman's refusal to allow her beliefs in a better, more equitable world to be overtaken by the evil that surrounded her. 20241115. Essinger, Anna. Boarding schools England Kent History 20th century. Refugee children Education England Kent History 20th century. Refugees Germany History 20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945.) Kent (England) History 20th century. Biographies. fast TXBRI