EP 209 - The Great Escape (Part 1)

The students fled from Nazi Germany. So, what happened to them?

It was 1933 and the Nazis came to power in Germany. But one headmistress would not allow her Jewish school to be forced into adopting the Nazi ideology. So Anna embarked on a daring plan to smuggle her whole school out of Germany. 

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Cadbury, Deborah, The School that Escaped the Nazis, PublicAffairs, 2022

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