When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Anna is not sure who Hitler is, but she sees his face on posters all over Berlin. Then one morning, Anna and her brother awake to find her father gone! Her mother explains that their father has had to leave and soon they will secretly join him. Anna just doesn?t understand. Why do their parents...
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Anna is not sure who Hitler is, but she sees his face on posters all over Berlin. Then one morning, Anna and her brother awake to find her father gone! Her mother explains that their father has had to leave and soon they will secretly join him. Anna just doesn?t understand. Why do their parents keep insisting that Germany is no longer safe for Jews like them? Because of Hitler, Anna must leave everything behind. Based on the gripping real-life story of the author, this poignant backlist staple gets a brandnew look for a new generation of readers just in time for Holocaust Remembrance Month.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142414088 (0142414085)
ASIN: 142414085
Publish date: January 22nd 2009
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Classics,
History,
Academic,
School,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
War,
World War II,
German Literature,
Holocaust,
Germany
Series: Out of the Hitler Time (#1)
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...