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How Curious George’s creators saved him from the Nazis
GABE FRIEDMAN, HAMBURG
But many people probably don’t know the children’s book character was actually born during very dark times. His two Jewish creators, Margret and H A Rey, fled the Nazis in 1940 – on homemade bicycles, no less – carrying their unpublished manuscripts with them.
The story of the couple’s daring escape is told in the documentary “Monkey Business: The Story of Curious George’s Creators”, which premiered online and on on-demand platforms earlier this year.
At the same time, in a coincidence of timing, the 2005 children’s book “The Journey That Saved Curious George”, was mailed to 8- to 11-year-olds across the country this month through the PJ Library, a non-profit that champions Jewish-themed children’s books.
No matter what the format, the story of Curious George’s creators is a fascinating one.
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Margret & H.A. Rey
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The Parents of Curious George
Margret and H. A. Rey were the reluctant parents of a cartoon ape-child.
TWO CHIMPS DRESSED in hoodies and quilted nylon sports coats stroll through the Central Park Zoo. They are accompanied by a pair of humans; a couple, perhaps. He is black, she is white: a duet of silk satin and worsted wool, of elegance and determination. The outré tableau is fitting for the eccentric Manhattan. The iconic Garry Winogrand photograph from 1967, taken amid the Civil Rights movement, continues to bemuse and confound. Winogrand’s protégé Tod Papageorge, the first to notice the scene that day, thought that it captured “a New York City piece of strangeness.” For critic Hilton Als, the strangeness was America’s racist fear of miscegenation, “whose only natural progeny could be … animals.”
In fact, any urban couple raising an ape-child in early-to-mid-20th-century America — and there were a few — carried a bundle of unresolved questions about race and heredity, s