Nine-year-old Anna and her family are forced to leave their native Germany because Hitler has come to power and her publicist father is now in danger. This autobiographical story by a famous British children's writer shows the experiences of a child torn out of his usual atmosphere and forced to adapt to new rules of life, a new culture, a new language. Judith Kerr looks with childish eyes at the horror that haunted her family, spreading across Europe, and the pink rabbit, forever abandoned in a Berlin house, only emphasizes the depth of her experiences.