Three of the couple 's four children were born in 1943 , 1947 and 1948 . Between the births Ellen Marx taught German at the Pestalozzi School which had been founded on the north side of the city in 1934 by Ernesto Alemann . Most of the pupils were from Jewish families that had fled Germany and Austria . As her own children became less full-time , for around twenty years she found enormous satisfaction from helping to look after children with the Lamroth Hakol Community ( '' loosely : " Despite everything community " '' ) , established in 1944 by and for German-Jewish refugees . The immediate priority was to teach the children Spanish . During the early 1950s she met many badly traumatised children whose parents ' had survived the Shoa . Most had arrived via a large displaced persons ' camp near Ulm where 7,000 holocaust survivors had been gathered together
Shoa
The Holocaust
Ellen Marx (human rights activist)