In 1939, after she had fled to England, Bergas was part of the group of teachers from Bunce Court School that met the Kindertransports and helped the refugee children adjust to their lives in the new country.
Within months, Essinger decided that Nazi Germany was no longer conducive to educating children and she moved the entire school to Kent, England.
[2][3] In 1938, Essinger was asked to organize a reception camp at Dovercourt for the Kindertransports coming from Germany with thousands of children unaccompanied by their parents.
[4] From December 1938 to January 1939, Bergas was part of the group of four staff people from Bunce Court, three teachers and a cook,[5] who went to meet the Kindertransports and help the children adjust to their new situation.
[6] Bergas described the scene at the arrival of the first transport with hundreds of confused children who neither knew each other nor anyone else, who were "full of anxiety and distrust" because of bad treatment received under growing antisemitism.