by Judith Kerr
This was a different type of novel dealing with Hitler, his regime and the affect he had on individuals. It wasn’t the heart-torn stories of concentration camps or hiding from the soldiers, this story dealt with a family adapting to life on the other side of the fence. Leaving the security of their ...
The title of this book comes when the Nazis seize the house and belongings of Anna and her family. This occurs after the family leaves Berlin, escaping the Nazis as they rise to power. Anna’s father has some fame as a writer, and he is targeted by the Nazis for his writing as well as for his Jewis...
I approached this with a lot of false expectations based on the title and description. I was really delighted because, while this is a WW II era novel written by a German Jew, the perspective is very different from any I have read. Anna and her family (secular Jews for starters) were among the first...
BBC will broadcast this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d2bxgThank you, Laura, for telling me. I have trouble navigating BBC. I missed that last parts, or at least I cannot find them. No, Laura helped me find the third part!I have listened to the third part. :0) It seems that the trilogy is comp...
I wish I’d read this book when I was a child, not that I enjoyed it any less for reading it as an adult. In fact, possibly I enjoyed it more because of course I know more about the historical background. However, I wish I’d had the experience of reading this when I was younger. Sometimes I would lik...
Judith Kerr's semi-autobiographical story set in Berlin in 1933. Anna's famous father has flu. Read by Rosemary Leach.
A 1001 CBYMRBYGU. Anna has to leave Germany with her family to flee the Nazis. First the family goes to Switzerland, then to Paris, and finally to England. Anna’s father has great difficulty finding work as a writer so the family must make many sacrifices, including learning new languages and having...
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