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Das Landschulheim Herrlingen war eine von den Schwestern Clara Weimersheimer (1883–1963) und Anna Essinger (1879–1960) im Jahre 1926 mit der Unterstützung weiterer Geschwister in Herrlingen gegründete reformpädagogische Einrichtung, die 1933 von Anna Essinger nach Otterden) in Großbritannien verlegt wurde und dort mit vielen aus Deutschland mitgekommenen Schülern als Bunce Court ...
Alumni of the Bunce Court School in Otterden, in Kent, England, formerly the Landschulheim Herrlingen in Herrlingen, Germany Pages in category "People educated at Bunce Court School" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
When the Kindertransports began Bunce Court and Kent Quakers took in as many of the refugees as possible. When the transports stopped in 1939, Bunce Court continued to take in refugees on scholarships. Orphaned children who had survived Buchenwald, Theresienstadt, and Czestochowa were brought to Bunce Court in 1946. Over 900 children passed through the school before its closure in 1948.
1. Dez. 2018 · Bunce Court School took in as many of the refugees as possible. But after the declaration of War in 1939, large buildings in the south east began to be taken under military control as part of the ...
7. Juli 2018 · On the occaison of the unveiling of an AJR plaque to Anna Essinger (Tanta Anna/TA) at Bunce Court, Kent, on 25th June 2018. Introduction by Old Bunce Courti...
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She and her family founded a boarding school, the Landschulheim Herrlingen in 1926, with Anna Essinger as headmistress. In 1933, with the Nazi threat looming and the permission of all the parents, she moved the school and its 66 children, mostly Jewish, to safety in England, re-establishing it as the Bunce Court School.
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 ...
