When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Essential Modern Classics) - Softcover

Book 1 of 3: Out of the Hitler Time

Kerr, Judith

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9780007274772: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Essential Modern Classics)

Synopsis

Anna was only nine years old in 1933, too busy with her school work and friends to take much notice of Adolf Hitler's face glaring out of political posters all over Berlin. Being Jewish, she thought, was just something you were because your parents and grandparents were Jewish. But then one day her father was unaccountably, frighteningly missing. Soon after, she and her brother, Max, were hurried out of Germany by their mother with alarming secrecy.

Reunited in Switzerland, Anna and her family embark on an adventure that would go on for years, in several different countries. They learn many new things: new languages, how to cope with the wildest confusions, and how to be poor. Anna soon discovers that there are special skills to being a refugee. And as long as the family stayed together, that was all that really mattered.

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About the Author

Judith Kerr was born in Berlin, the daughter of a distinguished German writer. She left Germany with her family in 1933 to escape from the Nazis and they arrived in England in 1936, having spent the intervening years in Switzerland and France. She is married to writer Nigel Kneale and they have two children.

Review

"A compassionate introduction to the whole subject of World War II" - Books for your Children "An extremely exciting adventure story." - Daily Express "A charming and touching book, often very funny" - Daily Mail "Exact, intelligent and unsentimental." - Sunday Telegraph "A beautifully written, moving and poignant story that is - and very much deserves to be - a timeless classic" Z J Cookson, TheBookbag

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