when hitler stole pink rabbit by judith kerr

Judith’s father didn’t return to Germany until after the war, when he was invited on an initiative British Control Commission. The family spent time in Switzerland and Paris before settling in England. Two days later, the Nazis visited their house in Berlin looking to seize the family’s passports. The anonymous caller “saved all of our lives,” according to Judith, and came just in time. He fled immediately, while Judith followed with her mother and brother on the eve of Hitler’s election. In February 1933, Judith’s father received a call warning him that the Nazis were trying to seize his passport.

In 1932 they published a sort of death list of people they said they would stand against a wall and shoot when they came to power. “Because he was witty he made fun of them, which they absolutely hated. “He warned against them for a number of years before they came to power,” said Judith. Judith’s father, Alfred Kerr, was a well known writer and theatre reviewer who became an outspoken critic of the rising Nazi movement. She was nine years old when her family fled Berlin after coming under threat from the Nazis. Kerr’s insight was inspired by her own experience, which she shared with Ryan Tubridy this morning. Published in 1971, it tells the story of a young Jewish girl who escaped Nazi Germany during World War II, explaining the experience through the simplicity of a child’s eyes.

Explaining war and atrocities to children is never easy, which is perhaps why Judith Kerr’s novel, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, became an international best seller.

When hitler stole pink rabbit by judith kerr