| International Standard Book Number |
9781541751200 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781541751194 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Cadbury, Deborah, author.
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| Title Statement |
The school that escaped the Nazis : the true story of the schoolteacher who defied Hitler / Deborah Cadbury.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Public Affairs, 2022.
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| Physical Description |
440 p. Hardcover 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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volume nc rdacarrier
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| Summary, Etc. |
"By 1931, Anna Essinger had read Mein Kampf and knew that Hitler's world view was violent, utterly destructive, and that many of her pupils in her small progressive school in Herrlingen, Germany were in terrible danger. She decided that in order to offer them a refuge, and a future, she must first move her school entirely out of the Nazis' reach. So, she did just that, creating a safe haven in Kent, England. Anna and the first seventy children escaped Nazi Germany in 1933, but in time she would accept waves of increasingly traumatized children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and then Poland as the crisis spread. Some children had, by the time they reached Essinger, been violated by five years of escalating deprivations. For those who escaped the camps and ghettos, Essinger offered the only salvation that mattered, in the words of a student: "a great deal of love and determination to help us." Acclaimed writer Deborah Cadbury retells the remarkable story of Essinger, drawing on moving first-person accounts of the children who escaped and their reflections on the lives they created from the ashes of WWII. The School That Escaped from the Nazis is not just a Holocaust survival story - many of the students were Jewish - but an inspiring narrative of one woman's refusal to allow her beliefs in a better, more equitable world to be overtaken by violent force and political extremism. Essinger's determination to move her school becomes a triumph of humanism in a time of increasing violence and intolerance"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
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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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Essinger, Anna.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Refugee children, Germany, history 20th century.
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Boarding schools, England.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Refugee children, England, Kent, history, 20th Century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Kent, England.
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