![]() ![]() Anna's father is a famous author and journalist who has published criticism of Hitler’s party. The children hear that their father has sought refuge in Prague, Austria, along with Anna's older brother Max. Elsbeth, who is not Jewish, says the whole thing is silly and wants it to go away. Anna has never thought about Judaism in-depth, but she tells Elsbeth that she’s technically Jewish because of her mother. They discuss his pledge to ban Jews from Germany. The girls see fliers for his campaign around town. It is a few months before March 1933, and Adolf Hitler is running for Chancellor of Germany. The novel opens with the nine-year-old protagonist, Anna, walking around Berlin with her good friend Elsbeth. Its themes include survival, politics' incursion on domestic life, and the challenges of growing up. It won Germany’s top prize for children’s fiction in 1974. This coming of age novel was published in 1971. The family traveled around Europe for several years before settling in London, where Kerr completed middle and high school. ![]() Her father was the prominent cultural critic Alfred Kerr. Kerr is of German-Jewish heritage, and her family left Germany once Hitler rose to power in 1933. Kerr wrote and illustrated the book to explain her own history to her children. ![]() The children’s novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, by Judith Kerr, is the first in a trilogy based on the author’s experience during WWII. ![]()
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