Else Ury was a German-Jewish novelist and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volu
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"Instead of the girlish heads bent over their notebooks, Annemarie saw laughing soldiers." Illustration by Robert Sedlacek (1881–1957) from Nesthäkchen und der Weltkrieg (1921). This illustration contains one error. German soldiers wore field gray, not olive drab.
Berlin memorial plaque, Kantstraße 30, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany
A Nesthäkchen is the youngest child in a family. Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Annemarie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten-book Nesthäkchen serie
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…included comments about her initial doubts in an epilogue to volume 7, Nesthäkchen and Her Chicks. 1913/1918 Nesthäkchen und ihre Puppen (Translation: Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls) 1915/1918 Nesthäkchens erstes Schuljahr (Translation: Nesthäkchen's First School Year…
"Annemarie clamped her teeth firmly together so that she would not utter a sound as Fräulein set the huge sponge in motion and annoyingly rubbed," from Nesthäkchen und ihre Puppen (1913).