In town as a backdrop for a Festival Of Lights and water. In the. Box we begin with a look back at the life of british writes an illustrator of childrens books judith whos died aged 95 she was actually born here in berlin but fled the nazis with a parents in the early 1930 s. A most famous book remains the tiger who came to tea there were many witty and lovingly illustrated books like the whole series on monk the cat was always getting into difficult situations his mole. Judith kerrs career as an Award Winning author started with a Bedtime Story she invented for her daughter she didnt wrote down and illustrated the tiger who came to tea which was published in 1968 and has since sold millions of copies worldwide but it was a less whimsical book for young adults that really launched her career when hitler still pink rabbit is a semi autobiographical book based on her own childhood experiences. Judith kerr was born in berlin in 1923 father alfred kerr was an influential Theater Critic of
alfred kurth fled to prague in march of 1933 judith her older brother michael and their mother also secretly left their home in an affluent suburb of berlin just before the secret police tried to seize their passports they met up with alfred in switzerland the family later moved to paris and finally settled in london in 1035. per wrote when hitler stole pink rabbit which became the 1st book in a trilogy to try to explain to her children what her own childhood had been like. but it was published as west germany was just starting to come to terms with its nazi past and the book ended up being read by generations of german schoolchildren is 1st published. i think in 74 at a time when the germans. hadn t yet really. managed to talk to their children about the poss that obviously was difficult and.