The school that escaped the Nazis the true story of the schoolteacher who defied Hitler
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...
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New York :
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June 2022.
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| Edition: | First US edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part One 1933-September 1939. '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'
- Part Two September 1939-July 1948. '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 just to 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'
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Further notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
