A couple of months ago on the podcast Plumfield Moms, I heard a recommendation for this book. This well-researched nonfiction book relates how German schoolteacher, Anna Essinger, who perceives that Hitler's hate-filled ideologies would destroy her country and pupils, devises a plan to move her school and her pupils to Kent, England. Her far-sightedness allows her to rescue nine hundred students. Readers learn about the destruction and evil the Nazis poured out on the Jews and nations and also how the children in Anna's school are restored to humanity.
Ms. Cadbury weaves in stories of numerous children throughout and integrates how people were treated in various countries during the war in effortless manner. To endure the horrors this book revealed, I had to almost exist outside of myself. Some events were horrifying and beyond comprehension.
Warning: horrible acts towards Jews and other people (& not just the Nazis acting out evil, the Russians also raped women and ransacked villages when they took them back from the Nazis)
*Highly recommend (for adults and mature teens)
-Borrowed from the library.
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