Anna wins a prize in a composition competition for a French exam, and Max wins a prize for being the strongest student in his class. The family are in different countries throughout the book: Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland, France and England.

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Book reviews | RGfE When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Book reviews | RGfE

I’ve no idea how this escaped me as a child (I would have devoured it) but extremely thankful to find it as an adult. Lo único que no me gustó fue el final, ya que sentía que faltaban páginas, me hubiera gustado saber más de la historia, sin embargo me gustó y lo disfruté muchísimo. Algunas cosas habían sido difíciles, pero siempre había sido interesante, y a menudo divertido: y mamá y papá y Max y ella casi siempre habían estado juntos.

The story is told through a series of very funny events, whether it's escaping on the midnight train to Switzerland, or learning French from scratch. Bombs on Aunt Dainty, which was originally published as The Other Way Round in 1975, [1] is about Anna and her family's life in London during World War II. Kids will love the quick-witted Anna, who's both frank about her situation and innocent of the danger she escaped, thanks to her parents' protective humor.

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The family traveled around Europe for several years before settling in London, where Kerr completed middle and high school. The author continues to live in this country, now in her 90s still illustrating children's books (and there is a bilingual English-German school in south London named after her). A reread of one of my favourite childhood books although as a child I spent a lot of time thinking about which toy I would choose if I had to flee.There are Jews scattered all over the world,’ he said, ‘and the Nazis are telling terrible lies about them. It seemed very quiet after she had gone though Anna could hear her footsteps hurrying to the telephone and, a little later, hurrying even faster up the stairs to Papa’s room. Suppose that without your noticing it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer.

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit : Kerr, Judith, Dahl, Erhard When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit : Kerr, Judith, Dahl, Erhard

She ultimately chooses the dog, but her mother assures them that if they have to remain in Switzerland, where they are fleeing to, their maid Fraulein Heimpel (Heimpi) can send more toys. They always kept their chins up and eventually they got out of their situation even stronger than before and that is something I consider as the most important message of this novel. It was an eye opener to understand how Hitler forced people to leave their homeland and restart their lives with next to nothing. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit was adapted by the German TV channel WDR as the television film Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl, directed by Ilse Hofmann [ de], starring Martin Benrath and Elisabeth Trissenaar. Told from Anna's point of view (she turns ten shortly after they arrive in Switzerland), the story shows how she views her life as a child refugee, punctuated by the odd incident of anti-Semitic behaviour, though thankfully it never gets worse for her than bad words and rejection by some non-Jewish families.Opening in Berlin, where the oblivious young Anna is more concerned with school than with Hitler, who seems a distant disturbance in the adult world around her, rather than an immediate concern in her own life, the story moves on to Switzerland, where her family settle for a time. It shows the experience of fleeing the only country and life the children had known and trying to start life elsewhere. This semi-autobiographic classic records author's experiences as a young girl of 9, who had to leave Germany with her family when the Nazis put her father, Alfred Kerr, an influential German critic of Jewish descent, in their top list of opponents.