Anna Essinger, Paula Essinger, Klara Weimersheimer
Closed
27 July 1948
Headmistress
Anna Essinger
Teaching staff
Bruno Adler, Hanna Bergas, Erich Katz, Wilhelm Marckwald, Hans Meyer, Adolf Prag
Gender
co-educational
Enrollment
64–140 pupils
Average class size
5–8 pupils
Education system
progressive education
Language
English
Campus
Bunce Court
School fees
£100 per year
Communities served
Jewish refugees from Nazism
Alumni
Frank Auerbach, Leslie Brent, Gerard Hoffnung, Frank Marcus, Peter Morley, Michael Roemer, Helmut and Richard Sonnenfeldt
The Bunce Court School was an independent, private boarding school in the village of Otterden, in Kent, England. It was founded in 1933 by Anna Essinger, who had previously founded a boarding school, Landschulheim Herrlingen in the south of Germany, but after the Nazi Party seized power in 1933, she began to see that the school had no future in Germany. She quietly found a new home for the school and received permission from the parents of her pupils, most of whom were Jewish, to bring them to safety in England. The new school was called New Herrlingen School, but came to be known as Bunce Court. The school closed in 1948. Alumni, who sometimes stayed on at the school even after finishing, were devoted to the school and organized reunions for 55 years. They have referred to its "immense effect" on their lives, as "Shangri-La" and to being there as "walking on holy ground".
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