5/13/2023 0 Comments When hitler stole![]() ![]() Link also wanted to include more information about Kerr’s father, Alfred Kerr, fictionalized as “Arthur Kemper” in the book and film. ![]() We also feel the family’s worries more acutely as the power goes out in their apartment and Anna and her brother, Max, fish for change in a fountain. An Austrian boarder at the family’s flat in Paris becomes an antisemitic neighbor. Other changes tweak the formula of Kerr’s book to elaborate the dangers of the time for Jews. “That really surprised me,” Link said, “I wouldn’t have dared to say something like that.” When Link spoke to Kerr over the phone - the author died in May of 2019, two weeks before Link could show her a cut of the film - she insisted her time as a refugee was “the most beautiful time in my life” for how close it brought her family together. it doesn’t play down the tragedy of the situation for the family.”īut Kerr wrote in an author’s note that she was inspired to write the novel - and two follow ups - partly to correct the impression that her childhood, for all its difficulties, was tragic. “You don’t have to be afraid of the book,” she said, “It is not especially brutal or cruel, but at the same time it is not superficial. ![]() Kerr’s book, originally written in English and dramatized in the film in the author’s native German, was mandatory reading in German schools during Link’s childhood. Long After ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit,’ Judith Kerr Still Has Yarns To Spin. ![]()
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