Anna Essinger: The Teacher Who Defied Hitler

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When you need a glimpse of hope in the most dire circumstances, there is Anna Essinger, a school teacher who was able to pull her whole school full of Jewish pupils out of Germany. Essinger taught and cared for hundreds of Jewish refugees, quietly and peacefully resisting the Nazi party throughout World War II.

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0:00.0	Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:18.0	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has
0:24.1	gripped millions of people throughout the ages.
0:27.3	I am one of those people.
0:29.7	My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
0:37.3	This episode contains discussions of murder, genocide, and war.
0:42.9	There will be no ads in the middle of the podcast out of respect.
0:46.7	To help support us, please consider becoming a patron or giving a one-time donation on our
0:52.0	website, morbid curiositypodcast.com,
0:55.4	or on our cofi page, cofi.com slash mCP.
1:10.4	Recently, I've been thinking about something Mr. Rogers said.
1:14.7	Quote, when I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me,
1:20.8	look for the helpers.
1:22.3	You'll always find people who are helping.
1:25.0	End quote.
1:26.4	This simple spotlight of hope inspired me to go searching in the darkest,
1:31.7	most horrific places looking for the helpers, and I found one in Anna Essinger. Born in
1:38.9	1879, Anna Essinger lived through two world wars and participated in relief efforts for both.
1:47.0	She took care of displaced civilians, helped refugees escape Nazi operations, and aided
1:53.5	child survivors of concentration camps in recovering and healing after their horrific
1:58.8	experiences. Throughout it all, Esinger trusted her gut and chose to help those under fire from the Nazis
2:06.6	in any way she could, and the way she could help was through her work as a teacher.
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