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Allowed only one toy, nine-year-old Anna takes a new woolly dog and leaves behind her beloved Pink Rabbit. When the Nazis confiscate everything the family owned, she pictures Hitler playing with her rabbit, and a vast political seizure becomes one small, concrete loss she can grasp.
The flight is told by a child who experiences exile as novelty: new schools, new languages, train journeys. The parents' fear, the bounty on the father's head and the slide into poverty reach her only as fragments she half understands. The reader sees the gap between what the child registers and what is really at stake, so the danger feels larger for being barely voiced.
Anna concludes that she cannot truly be a refugee as long as her family stays together, whatever country they are in. Stability comes from the continuity of close relationships, not from a fixed place, possessions or citizenship. This lets a displaced child absorb repeated moves without losing her footing.
His income collapses as German-language outlets close to him, and the family drops from bourgeois comfort into cramped Paris poverty. Exile works as a sudden devaluation of any human capital tied to a place or a language, while children, who adapt to new languages faster, recover more quickly than their parents.