Number the Stars

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Number the Stars

• A book about Danish life during World War II.

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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!

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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.

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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 Jewish people were arrested.
• The Jewish people began to flee Germany.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Denmarks Flee
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How bad was life for the Jewish People under Nazi
rule?

• 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

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The Holocaust

• The word Holocaust, which means great destruction
  resulting in the extensive loss of life,
  especially by fire, was first used in the late
  1950's to refer to the death of Jews at the hands
  of the Nazis.
• Today we honor and remember the victims of Nazi
  torture through special museums, documentaries,
  and stories.