The school closed for a period during the Great Depression . Alarmed at the increasing anti-Semitism and political suppression by the Nazi Party of Germany at the time of Kristallnacht , Quakers of Iowa proposed in 1939 to receive refugees from Germany and house them at the Scattergood School . From 1939 through 1943 , they operated what they called the ' Scattergood Hostel , ' accepting a total of 185 refugees and helping them to resettle in the United States . After 1943 refugees were unable to leave Germany
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Scattergood Friends School