After Kristallnacht , the United Kingdom agreed to accept 10,000 German children in Kindertransports and Bunce Court took in as many of the refugees as possible . As Hitler invaded and annexed other countries , children began to come from Austria , Poland , Czechoslovakia , and Hungary . With an enrolment of uprooted children whose parents were in unknown circumstances , coming from different social classes and cultures , Essinger sometimes found it difficult to find British teachers who were up to the challenges and needs of the pupils . Some children were " almost ill with homesickness and the older children anxious for parents , brothers and sisters left in Germany . A Quaker worker told ... of parents ' agony of mind who could only choose one of several children to go to England for safe education and which to select — the most brilliant , most fit , or one most vulnerable and unlikely to survive ? " Ultimately , many of the pupils never saw their parents again
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Bunce Court School