The incredible and true story of Shefford - where the message of yesterday, is only even more relevant today.

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For six years Shefford and its surrounding villages played host to the evacuated Jewish Secondary School from London. Many of the school’s 500 pupils were refugees, including 200 children who had been brought from Austria by the school’s Principal in November 1938.

 

There were some initial misunderstandings from residents bemused by the rules of Orthodox Judaism, but “when in the year 1945 the time for parting finally came there was friendship, affection and blessings when saying goodbye. In those six years the evacuees had been taken to their hearts, had grown in size and in maturity under the care of the kind Shefford population. (Judith Grunfeld, Shefford)

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