It was one of the most extraordinary mercy missions of the Second World War – a head teacher smuggling her entire school out of Nazi Germany, right under Hitler ’s nose.
In 1933, 70 mainly Jewish pupils had fled from the school, called Landschulheim Herrlingen, to save their education. But it soon became clear the move had saved their lives.
By 1938, the school, led by head Anna Essinger, was opening its doors at Bunce Court, near Otterden, Kent, to refugees fleeing via the Kindertransport. And after the war it helped traumatised children who had survived the death camps.
-copy-29e15046.jpeg?w=600)
