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The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
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ISBN10: 1541751191
ISBN13: 9781541751194
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: Jul 12 2022
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.48 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781541751194
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: Jul 12 2022
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.48 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022 The extraordinary true story of a courageous school principal who saw the dangers of Nazi Germany and took drastic steps to save those in harm's way. In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger saved her small, progressive school from Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils, so she hatched a courageous and daring plan: to smuggle her school to the safety of England. As the school she established in Kent, England, flourished despite the many challenges it faced, the news from her home country continued to darken. Anna watched as Europe slid toward war, with devastating consequences for the Jewish children left behind. 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. Featuring moving firsthand testimony from surviving pupils, and drawing from letters, diaries, and present-day interviews, The School that Escaped the Nazis is a dramatic human tale that offers a unique perspective on Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. It is also the story of one woman's refusal to allow her belief in a better world to be overtaken by hatred and violence.
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