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    Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl (Ungekürzt)

    Written by Judith Kerr

    Narrated by Sascha Icks

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    Anna ist neun Jahre alt, als die Reichstagswahl von 1933 einen Mann namens Adolf Hitler an die Macht bringt. Annas Vater ist nicht nur jüdischer Herkunft, er schreibt auch kritische Kommentare über den Mann, den viele ihren &Führer& nennen. Es wird Zeit, die Koffer zu packen und Berlin zu verlassen. Aber Annas Schmusetier, ein rosa Plüschkaninchen, bleibt zurück. Ihre Flucht führt Annas Familie erst in die Schweiz, dann nach Frankreich und schließlich nach England. In der Fremde nimmt nicht jeder die Heimatlosen freundlich auf ...
    LanguageDeutsch
    PublisherHörbuch Hamburg Audio
    Release dateMar 21, 2014
    ISBN9783844901405
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    • 4/5
      After hearing a Holocaust survivor, Eve Kugler, speak at a Holocaust memorial day event in my department last week, I read this book, aimed at older children but really for readers of all ages, which is a fictionalised account of the author's own childhood experiences in Germany in the early 1930s. Her father, journalist Alfred Kerr was a prominent Jewish journalist and critic of the Nazis in Berlin. Warned of a plan to take away his passport, he was able to smuggle his wife and children to Switzerland on the very day of the election in March 1933 where the Nazis became the biggest single party (though, despite being emboldened by Hitler's appointment as Chancellor and brutal intimidation against their opponents, without achieving an overall majority). The family, here fictionalised as the Papa and Mama of Anna (Judith) and her brother Max, later move to France when Switzerland's neutral state is compromised by Nazi pressure. After nearly getting sent by a porter onto the wrong train, bound for Stuttgart, the family settles in Paris and makes a decent life there, though suffering some hardship as Anna's father tries to get work. After a couple of years they move to London. Told from Anna's point of view (she turns ten shortly after they arrive in Switzerland), the story shows how she views her life as a child refugee, punctuated by the odd incident of anti-Semitic behaviour, though thankfully it never gets worse for her than bad words and rejection by some non-Jewish families. The author continues to live in this country, now in her 90s still illustrating children's books (and there is a bilingual English-German school in south London named after her).
    • 4/5
      Summary: This children's chapter book is a story of survival about a German-Jewish girl names Anna and her family during the Nazi takeover in Europe. Anna does not realize what is happening until it happens-Hitler is taking control of Germany and her life. In this novel, Anna loses her father and her and her brother go on a journey to sneak out of the country. It captures the struggle and hardships Anna and her family face moving from country to country trying to find a safe place to call home. Fighting the discrimination and the war, Anna and her family stick together through it all. Argument: There are many reasons I enjoyed this children's chapter book and would recommend it for teachers in upper elementary level classrooms. First, I enjoyed the illustrations that can be seen on each page that introduces the chapter. It helps break the story up from being all text and give the readers something to look forward to after they finish each chapter. It also gives them a prediction of what will happen in the following chapter and foreshadows certain events. Secondly, I enjoyed this book because it contains language from the different countries the family travels to. This really puts the reader inside the minds and actions of the characters and connects them to the culture and time period. For example, on page 167 it states, "C'est bien pourou que ca dure". What I like about this book is it contains the multicultural language but also gives the English translation so the readers can comprehend the text. Lastly, I enjoyed the authors note/review in the beginning of the book. In this review it talks about how the author based this story off of herself and the struggles her family had to go through in Nazi occupied Europe. It gives the reader something to think back on as they read and imagine what life might have been like for the author. The main message of this story is the importance of family and love. Even though Anna and her family endure hardships and torment traveling all across Europe, their love and strength in one another never fades. It reminds children that they need to be thankful for what and who they have in their lives.
    • 2/5
      Told from the perspective of nine year old Anna, in 1933, her secure life becomes shattered as she and her family flee Berlin in 1933. Her father, a well-known writer, finds it impossible to support his family as increasingly his articles are not allowed to be printed.Insightful, fearful he knows he must take his family and leave all behind before it is too late. Moving from Germany to Switzerland, then France and finally England, Anna finds it difficult to adjust. Middle class and sheltered, she has no reference for the difficult life they face as the family learns different customs and languages.While the book is well written, I felt it lacked depth. As others were dying in concentration camps, starving and losing all contact with loved ones, Anna's family is fortunate to be able to leave. In comparison to other nine year old children, Anna is very naive regarding just how frightening it is to exist under Hitler's reign of terror.
    • 5/5
      I never read this book as a teenager, but if I had, I would have loved it. It's a more cheerful, and more true to life version of The Silver Sword, which was probably my favourite book as a child. It's well written, moving, and unusually it was written by someone who had experienced much of what she wrote. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Moving story of a young Jewish girl whose family is uprooted when Hitler comes to power. They settle first in Switzerland then move to Paris for a couple of years and finally move to England. As a child, Anna doesn't understand a lot of what is going on but our knowledge of events contribute an added poignancy.
    • 4/5
      As much as this is the story of one family's journey through Europe, it is equally the story of Germany in the 1930s, of heightened political tensions across Europe and whispered rumours of escalating horrors. On the face of it, Anna's story is heart-warming and encouraging and full of small adventures and achievements, but underneath the narrative is a very dark and unsettling vision of how the Nazi party's influence spread across Europe and into everyday life. A book which shall stay with me.
    • 2/5
      A story about a family who flees Germany in the 1930s to avoid persecution. The whole story takes place before the war so it's not really a World War 2 story, it's more a story about refugees. Not my favorite.
    • 4/5
      I saw this on the bookshelf at the library the other day when I was looking for a title for my eight-year-old brother to read. The book caught my interest, especially since I've always had a particular fascination for WWII and, sometimes, one can find true gems in the children's section of the library. Well, I was quite pleasantly surprised. I always loved reading WWII stories growing up -- stories from the chilren's perspective and written for children. There is something so innocent and inspiring about them. Several of my personal favorites were Snow Treasure (about several Norwegian children who daringly help smuggle gold out of occupied Norway), Twenty and Ten (about twenty school children who help hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis), and, especially, The Winged Watchman (about a Dutch boy who helps hide a downed allied pilot). I am very pleased to say that this was just as good. But also quite unique because it actually takes place before the war in 1935. Based on the real childhood of the author, it follows the adventures of a German-Jewish family lucky enough to escape Germany a week before Hitler comes to power. Told with a deep sincerity but also touching simplicity, it watches the family endure hardship as refugees in foreign countries and ultimately prevail. As the young Anna (through whose eyes most of the story is told), exclaims in one scene, "It's just that I think we should stay together. I don't really mind where or how. I don't mind things being difficult -- just as long as we're all four together....I've never minded being a refugee before. In fact I've loved it. I think the last two years, when we've been refugees have been much better than if we'd stayed in Germany. But if you send us away now I'm so terribly frightened...I'm so terribly frightened...That I might really feel like one!"It's a lovely little book. Do read it.
    • 5/5
      It comes as no surprise to discover that this outstanding British children's novel, which chronicles the childhood experiences of a young German Jewish girl named Anna, whose family must flee their comfortable home shortly before the 1933 election and resultant Nazi rise to power, is based upon Judith Kerr's own life-story. So convincing is it, so real does it feel, that I found that I had to continually remind myself that it was fiction, rather than autobiography. Opening in Berlin, where the oblivious young Anna is more concerned with school than with Hitler, who seems a distant disturbance in the adult world around her, rather than an immediate concern in her own life, the story moves on to Switzerland, where her family settle for a time. Unable to go back to Germany to collect the belongings - including Anna's stuffed pink rabbit - that they left behind, and unable to earn a sufficient living, the family move on to Paris, where Anna's writer father briefly finds work for a German expatriate newspaper being published there. When even this small source of revenue dries up, the family must move on again, this time to England.With its distinctly memorable title and its influential role in the teaching of World War II history to both British and German schoolchildren, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is one of those books that I have long been meaning to read, making its selection as our November title over in The Children's Fiction Book-Club to which I belong particularly fortunate. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, it is a story of one family who, despite confronting terrible times, managed to stick together and to flourish. Although the historical details are specific to a particular time and place, many of the general experiences that Anna and her family confront - trying to learn new languages and to find new friends, in strange places; trying to find a job and make connections, in one's field of work; confronting a significant loss of affluence, and learning to make do with less - will be familiar to refugees and immigrants the world over.Stealing 'Pink Rabbit' is clearly not the worst of Hitler's crimes, but then, this is not a book about the Holocaust. It is a book about the refugee experience of one fairly well-to-do family in pre-WWII days, and is told from the perspective of the nine-year-old daughter of that family. Although the more disturbing realities of what is going on back in Germany do enter the story - most notably, in the tragic figure of Onkel Julius, a family friend and naturalist who does not flee Germany when he has the chance, and who sees his entire world destroyed, even to the point that he is forbidden to visit his beloved animals at the Berlin Zoo - those realities are fairly distant. As they would be to the child narrator, living in safety in Switzerland, Paris, and England. I think that it is this very quality, this feeling of distance from the full horrors of the war (which, after all, hadn't happened yet!) and the Nazi regime, that makes this an ideal introduction to the topic for younger readers, and am bemused to note that some reviewers have taken the author to task for not writing a story horrific enough to suit their taste.Highly, highly recommended, to all young readers who enjoy historical fiction, and who are interested in the story of World War II. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit will serve as an excellent entree - truthful, sometimes tragic, but often hopeful - to a very disturbing moment in history. For my part, I intend to read the two sequels, The Other Way Round and A Small Person Far Away.
    • 4/5
      Read for the Nov. Children's Books group discussion. I'd really like to read some historical fiction for children about some other event, but at least this took place early, starting before Hitler was actually elected. And it's true, and it was written fairly long ago, before most of the other WWII fiction I've read.

      One thing I found interesting here is how quickly some of the French people got nasty to the Jewish refugees, for no good reason except that their world was turning into a nasty place. And England was seen as safe. This ends when they moved to England, so a sequel would be interesting.

      Anyway, very well-written, with terrific illustrations by the author, mostly actually a heartwarming family story with some bad true stuff mixed in. Still very readable, even funny in bits. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      A fictional novel based on the real story of how Kerr's family escaped Germany just prior to the Nazi Party gaining power. Kerr's father, Arthur Kerr, was a well known drama critic, journalist and author who was openly critical of Hitler and the Nazi party. The family was Jewish by blood but actually didn't celebrate the Jewish holidays. (In the book they are shown celebrating Easter and Christmas) The family got out of Germany just two days prior to the Nazi party winning the elections. They moved first to Switzerland, them France and finally settled in England. The main character is Anna, based on Judith Kerr. Anna is young, early primary school, at the start of the book. The book deals more with Anna and her brother Michael - plus their parents- dealing with moving from country to country, being broke, going to schools where everyone speaks a language you don't, than with the events of the emerging Nazi party, increasing anti-senitism in Europe or the events leading up to WW II. Recommended.
    • 3/5
      A welcome addition to any Holocuast fiction colletction for students.
    • 5/5
      This book was fantastic! I never planned on reading it but I got it as a gift and it was just really good. I do enjoy like historical fiction but I never really buy books like that because I always think I wouldn't enjoy it when in reality I always do. This book was really interesting and I couldn't put it down. But there's one thing that confuses me about this: I recently found out that there are like two more books in this series? Which I really don't understand because for me this was concluded.
    • 4/5
      When Hitler Stole pink Rabbit is Judith Kerr's YA novel based on her flight from Germany and Hitler at age nine. When she began writing this book, Kerr had only published picture books (Mog series and [The Tiger Who Came to Tea]) and was feeling unsure of both her rusty German and the exactness of her memories. So rather than using a first person narrative, Kerr tells this story from Anna's point of view. The major events and feelings are hers, with some invented detail. Unlike many Holocaust novels, what emerges is not a tragedy but a beautiful book of adventure, family and warmth. Anna, despite the family's new poverty, enjoys Switzerland and France, the excitement of new people and the challenge of learning new languages. (YA)
    • 5/5
      Nine-year-old Anna is living in Germany, and the year is 1933. It is one of the country's most troubled eras. But she's too busy with her schoolwork and friends to notice Adolf Hitler's face glaring from political posters plastered all over Berlin. And she's never even paid much attention to the fact that she's Jewish. Being Jewish, she thought, was just something that you inherited from your parents and grandparents, like the color of your hair. One day, she is forced to take notice. Her father is unaccountably, horrifyingly missing. Soon after, she and her brother, Max, are hurried out of Germany by their mother with alarming secrecy that Anna does not fully understand.At last, they are reunited in Switzerland, and Anna and family embark on an adventure that extends over the course of several years, and over the borders of many countries. Along the way, they learn new languages, new customs, how to cope with confusion, and how to be poor. They are refugees, and Anna soon discovers that it requires special skills to stay a few steps ahead of the Nazis.When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit avoids most of the details of the actual Holocaust. Instead it provides young readers with a gentle, yet important introduction to a devastating chapter in world history. The family moves all around and finally ends up in England. I really enjoyed this book. It was very easy to understand due to the fact that I am also Jewish. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys historical fiction and/or autobiographies. Overall this is definitely a humorous yet terrifying novel about a little girl living in the Holocaust.
    • 4/5
      Es ist nicht nur aus der Sicht eines Kindes geschrieben, sondern soll Kinder ansprechen. Das Buch kommt dem durchweg nach, die Handlung ist verständlich und eher ruhig. Man lernt die beiden Hauptpersonen gut kennen und kann mit ihnen fühlen.Auch ohne drastische Holocaust-Schilderung wird hinter der Geschichte der Schrecken der Zeit sichtbar, vor allem weil die beiden Geschwister so "normal" in allen Dingen sind und nur wegen ihrer Herkunft leiden müssen. Sie haben ähnliche Hobbys, Ängste, Träume wie andere Kinder, beschäftigen sich mit Dingen wie Schulnoten, neuen Buntstiften, Freunden, beruflichen Schwierigkeiten der Eltern, dem Heranwachsen.Empfehlenswert.
    • 4/5
      What I like about this book is how unsentimental it is. Anna, her brother and parents are Jews living in Germany. Her father is a writer, and when he comes under attack from the Nazis the family relocate to Paris. Life in Paris is much harder for them, moving from a large comfortable house to a small apartment. Anna describes the practicalities of learning a new language, of fitting into Parisian life, with a vivid and realistic tone. Although the book, based on the author’s own life, was written many years after the events it describes, it is still written from a child’s point of view with a child’s limited understanding of the wider events being played out around the family. It also gives a different perspective on the treatment of Jews in Europe, this time the refugee experience. At the end of the book, Anna’s family decides to relocate to England.
    • 3/5
      In this autobiographical novel, Anna's family barely escapes from Germany just as Hitler takes power. Although the family is not at all religious, and even celebrates Christmas rather than Hanukah, they are Jewish and that puts them in danger. Making matters worse, Anna’s father is a famous writer and Hitler places a bounty of his head. The family flees first to Switzerland, then to France, and finally to England as Papa struggles to find someone who will publish his work. This is a tender story of a young girl growing up in an ever-shifting world. Once well-off, Anna now goes without. She has to learn new languages and customs as the family flees from one country to the next. Anna, however, is truly fortunate because the family did not suffer the horrors of the Holocaust, which are barely mentioned in the novel. This story is appropriate for young middle school students, grades 4 to 6. At times the wording may be slightly unfamiliar to young readers because the author is English rather than American.