I went to the same progressive boarding school as the film-maker Peter Morley and featured in the first documentary he made, in 1947. The film was dedicated to Anna Essinger, a far-sighted Jewish educationist who fled to Britain with many of her pupils six months after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933. Peter and his siblings fled with their father at much the same time and naturally came to a school, Bunce Court, near Faversham in Kent, where the pupils and most of the staff spoke their native language.
Wartime evacuation took them to Shropshire, and I arrived there came after my mother had wanted to move me as far from bombing as possible. To this day I have no idea what she knew about the school but I spent most of the war years at Trench Hall, near Wem, speaking German.
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Wartime evacuation took them to Shropshire, and I arrived there came after my mother had wanted to move me as far from bombing as possible. To this day I have no idea what she knew about the school but I spent most of the war years at Trench Hall, near Wem, speaking German.
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- 7/25/2016
- by Harold Jackson
- The Guardian - Film News
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