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The school that escaped the Nazis : the true story of the schoolteacher who defied Hitler

The school that escaped the Nazis : the true story of the schoolteacher who defied Hitler

Book 2022

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 li...