Grete Tugendhat left with the children for Sankt Gallen in Switzerland in May 1938. The oldest daughter Hanna left directly for England to visit her father Hans Weiss and joined the family in Switzerland at a later point. Fritz Tugendhat consequently left in July, having stayed behind in Brno and prepared their things for transport along with the governess Irene Kalkofen. Irene Kalkofen departed for England (Shaftesbury in Dorset county) on 2nd of July 1938.