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Number the Stars
A book about Danish life during
World War II.
Setting
• Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1943 during
WWII
• German forces have invaded the lands
around Germany.
• Great Britain and France have joined
forces to stop Germany.
• Germany has invaded Denmark and now
the Jewish people fear for their lives!
The Germans
• Adolph Hitler was the
leader of the Germans.
• He believed that German
people were members of a
master race that should
take over the world.
• He led the Nazis party of
Germany.
The Nazis
• The Nazis believed that Jewish people
were the most dangerous race alive.
• They wanted to rid the world of all
Jewish people.
• In 1938, over 1,000 synagogues were
burned and 30,000 Jews people were
arrested.
• The Jewish people began to flee
Germany.
The Nazi Takeover in Europe
• The Nazi party created Concentration Camps
(work camps with horrific conditions for
Jewish people).
• As the Nazi party became more powerful,
they captured more and more countries and
more and more Jewish people.
• Jewish deaths by country.
Denmark and the Germans
• In 1940, the country
of Denmark was
captured by the
German Nazis.
• There were 8,000
Jewish people living
here at this time!
• There were also about
1,500 Jewish people
who had fled to
Denmark in the early
1930s.
The Arrest of the Danish Jews
• In 1943 when the Danish people heard
that the Germans had decided to arrest
and imprison Jewish people, they
formed the Danish Resistance.
• Finally many of the Danish Jews decide
to flee Denmark.
More history behind the story!
Denmark’s Flee
How bad was life for the Jewish People under Nazi rule?
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The following were rules for Jewish residents of areas controlled by
the Nazis. These rules affected everyone who had at least one Jewish
grandparent.
In many places, Jews had to wear a yellow 6-pointed star.
They were limited in the use of public transportation.
They had to hand in their bicycles.
Attendance was prohibited at theaters, movies, and sporting events.
They could shop only at Jewish stores and only between 3-5 pm.
Children had to attend Jewish schools and couldn't visit Christian
friends.
All Jews had to be indoors by 8 pm.
They could not hold government jobs.
Non-Jewish citizens were ordered not to go to Jewish doctors or hire
Jewish lawyers.
Jewish teachers were fired.
Jews who owned stores had to mark windows with the word Jew and
eventually had to sell their businesses to non-Jews.
Jewish residents had no political rights
The Holocaust
• The word Holocaust, which means
"burn" was first used in the late 1950's
to refer to the death of Jews at the
hands the Nazis.
• Today we honor and remember the
victims of Nazi torture through special
museums, documentaries, and stories.
More information on the Holocaust…..