Camp Catawba’s founder fled horrors of Germany in 1939

Winston-Salem Journal
Moss grows heavy on the roof of Camp Catawba’s “Mainhouse.” The roof is caving in on the boys’ dorm, and thick brush and tall trees cover a hillside where there was once a ball field and amphitheater.

It’s been nearly 40 years since boys raced down the path to the swimming hole or dressed up in costumes to perform Shakespeare. But the camp and the story of how the camp director escaped Hitler and founded a summer enclave of European culture in the mountains is being preserved.
The National Park Service, which now owns the 18-acre Camp Catawba, is working with the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation and Appalachian State University in trying to get the camp included on the National Register of Historic Places.   Read full story