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the Leonore Goldschmidt Schule--Privatschule für Knaben und Mädchen (Private School for Boys and Girls) was opened on the grounds of an estate at Berlin-Grunewald during 1935. We have little information on the school. Many Jewish children attended state schools. Germany had one of the finest state educational system in the world. Jewish children did well in the state system. After World War I when anti-Semtism grew, some schools were not safe for Jewish children to attend, even in the 1920s before the NAZIs seized power. Thus some parents preferred to send their children to private schools. One specifically Jewish private school was the Goldschmidt School. As a result of the Nuremberg Laws issued in September 1935, German children were expelled from public schools. The NAZIs allowed Jews to establish their own schools.This was one of the schools that was opened to meet the educational needs of the Jewish school which could no longer attend the state public schools. Berlin in particular had a substantial Jewish population. Some of the Jewish children who were expelled from the public schools studied at the Goldschmidt school. The school operated with a British curiculum which was useful to the children, most of whom managed to emigrate. At its peak in 1937 there were 500 students at the school. The relativeky tranquil environment changed after Krittallnacht (November 1938). A large group of Hitler Youth boys besiged the school. The staff managed to get the Jewish children out and defused the situatiin by turning the school over to a British teacher. A Union Jack flag was flown over the school. The situation never returned to normal as HJ boys set up a permanent protest sttion outside the school. They also heckeled the Jewish children coming and going to school. The NAZIs closed the school in 1939. The NAZIs did not close all of the Jewish schools at this time, but we suspect they closed this school bdcause it had decent facilities and grounds. The school resumed operations in England until 1941 with the children allowed to leave Germany as part of the Kindertransport.
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