This dedication in this copy of Judith Kerr’s classic children's novel tells its own story of Nazi Germany and the cultural inheritance of two daughters from their fathers. Alfred Kerr, Judith Kerr’s father, was a German-born Jewish theatre and arts critic. Alfred, Julia Kerr, and their children fled Berlin for France in 1933 before settling in London in 1935. Judith Kerr later fictionalised this period of her life in the series ‘Out of the Hitler Time’, of which When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is the first book.

Cary Kloetzel was the daughter of Cheskel Zwi Kloetzel, a Jewish journalist and children’s book author who fled Nazi Germany to resettle in Palestine. Cary donated a selection of his books to a Goethe Institute educational program aimed at teaching German children about the Holocaust. In the archive of the Kloetzel family (The Kloetzel Collection) kept at The Central Archives for History of the Jewish People Jerusalem is are papers belonging to both Cheskel Zwi Kloetzel and Cary Kloetzel. Letters and postcards between Cary and Judith Kerr contained in the archives indicate that they were correspondents beyond the sharing of old family photographs. A poignant and personal association copy.

London: Collins, 1981. Fourth impression. 22 x 14.5 x 2.5. 191 pages. Hardback. Octavo. Publisher’s red cloth with silver lettering at spine. Illustrated with black and white line drawings by the author. Inscribed by the author at front flyleaf: “To Cary Kloetzel, With many thanks for the pictures of my father, from Judith Kerr.” Slightly spotted internally, a few marks at covers, else bright and clean. In near fine dust jacket.