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Judith Kerr

Judith Kerr (1923 - 2019) was active/lived in England, Germany.  Judith Kerr is known for Children's book author and illustration.

Judith Kerr, the British book author and illustrator who delighted children with tales of a hungry tiger and a mischievous cat named Mog, died on Wednesday at her home in London.

She was 95.

Her publisher announced her death on Thursday.

In a career spanning 50 years, Ms. Kerr was best known for her first book, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, published in 1968.

Ms. Kerr moved to England in 1933 when her family left Germany to escape the growing threat of Nazism. Her father, Alfred Kerr, was a Jewish theater critic whose books were burned because he was critical of the Nazi regime. The family, including Ms. Kerr’s brother, Michael, fled to Switzerland and Paris, before settling in England three years later.

Ms. Kerr would later write about the experience in When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, the first in a trilogy of children’s books about a fictional Jewish girl named Anna who flees the Nazis and returns to Berlin after World War II.

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