The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

Author/Contributor(s):	Cadbury, Deborah
Publisher:	PublicAffairs
Date:	02/20/2024
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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. 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. In time, Anna would take in orphans who had given up all hope. Her 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.