when hitler stole pink rabbit book review

That is another big lesson that Kerr teaches us all. I was moved to read about these struggles, especially the part of learning a new language, with which I totally sympathised. This touched me very much as it is more or less how I have felt during the last decade. The book also talks about the subject of being a refugee, of feeling like a foreigner everywhere you go, of belonging to a place or not. She has to adjust to different school systems and even learn a new language, French. OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIESĪnna has to beat the many difficulties she encounters during her exile. And this is, in my opinion, the most important topic of the novel.įor Anna, no matter what happens in her life, nothing makes a difference as long as the whole family is together. On the other hand, the author emphasizes the feeling of togetherness that the family is trying to maintain since they were forced to leave Germany. Hitler and the Nazis stole (among other things) millions of children of their childhood, of being able to play with their friends, or attend school.

They go first to Switzerland, later to France and finally to England.įor Anna all this is just fine if it were not because she didn’t bring her pink rabbit, which she left home and she is sure Hitler has stolen.Īnd in a way, this is true.

And this is the beginning of a new and different life for Anna and her family.Īs a consequence of the situation in Germany, and fearing what will for sure come later, and even before Hitler and his party win the elections, her parents decided they should all leave the country. One day, Anna wakes up in the morning to find his father is gone “on a journey”. We don’t go to church at all.”Īnna has heard that there is a really bad man called Hitler who somehow hates people like her family, the Jews, and he doesn’t like what his father writes about him and his colleagues in the newspapers. They are Jews, although Anna herself explains that “we’re not religious. His father is a famous writer and her mother takes care of the family. It is 1933 and Anna (9 years old) lives in Berlin with her older brother Max and her parents. Unfortunately, “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” in my opinion does not completely accomplish that task. However, I think it is very important to try to understand how a child would live through that horrendous experience. In my case, all the books I have read about the Second World War have been written by grow-ups (last one being the beautiful “The Garden of Angels”). We are used to read books about World War II and the events that led to it from the perspective of adults. That the second world war was one of the most awful events of the 20th century I think it is mostly clear for everyone. “I don’t really mind where we are (…) as long as we’re all together.” “WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT”

When hitler stole pink rabbit book review