The book Number The Stars is a historical fiction book about a girl named Annemarie and her friend Ellen who must hide because she's Jewish and she´s in a Nazi ruled country. And there looking for her and her family. "The Rosens' apartment is empty. We are wondering if they might be visiting their good friends the Johansens." (Pg. 44)
The theme of Number The Stars is freedom. Annemarie and her friends lived a normal life before the Nazis came. Now her friend Ellen and her fellow Jews are being persecuted and hunted down. Sadly this happens during WW2. During this time Jews were being prosecuted and being ¨relocated.¨
The setting in Number The Stars is Copenhagen, Denmark, 1943. Denmark during Nazi occupation is not a place where you would want …show more content…
This is happening in many war torn countries because everyone's at war, fighting not making shoes or baking. There are countless characters in Number The Stars but I'll only name the main two, Ellen and Annemarie. Annemarie is a brave girl because she lies to a Nazi officer that it's her fake aunt´s funeral to protect some Jews she didn't even know. "Who died?he asked harshly. No one answered. They watched Annemarie, and she realized that the officer was directing the question at her. Now she knew for certain what Uncle Henrik had meant when he had talked to her in the barn. To be brave come more easily if you knew nothing. She swallowed. "My Great-aunt Birte,"she lied, in a firm voice.¨ …show more content…
And soon she's off to give Herik his lunch. Suddenly out of nowhere a few nazi officers stop her. She tells them that's she's delivering lunch. But the dog smells something and he becomes suspicious. Then he grabs the basket and looks through the lunch and then he sees what the dogs are straining for. A handkerchief and he allows her to go on her way.
The conclusion of the book is when Annemarie gets to her uncle Henrik. That's when he tells her the handkerchief was important. The nazis brought dogs because so many people were escaping. They actually found many people while doing this. But the Sweden and Denmark scientists created a handkerchief that would confuse the dogs sense of smell.
And everything about the handkerchief was true. “The jews were smuggled across the Baltic sea (Kattegat) to Sweden in boats of local fisherman (like Henrik’s). Some fishermen built secret compartments in their boats to conceal people. These boats were often stopped in mid sea, and boarded by Nazi troops searching for jews. One of their instruments was specially trained police dogs. To counter this, scientists in Sweden and Denmark created a mixture of dried rabbits blood and cocaine, and lace handkerchiefs with this mixture. These were then distributed to the fishermen. When a dog smelled the rabbit’s blood, it would sniff the handkerchief. Exposure to the cocaine would temporarily destroy the
The theme of Number The Stars is freedom. Annemarie and her friends lived a normal life before the Nazis came. Now her friend Ellen and her fellow Jews are being persecuted and hunted down. Sadly this happens during WW2. During this time Jews were being prosecuted and being ¨relocated.¨
The setting in Number The Stars is Copenhagen, Denmark, 1943. Denmark during Nazi occupation is not a place where you would want …show more content…
This is happening in many war torn countries because everyone's at war, fighting not making shoes or baking. There are countless characters in Number The Stars but I'll only name the main two, Ellen and Annemarie. Annemarie is a brave girl because she lies to a Nazi officer that it's her fake aunt´s funeral to protect some Jews she didn't even know. "Who died?he asked harshly. No one answered. They watched Annemarie, and she realized that the officer was directing the question at her. Now she knew for certain what Uncle Henrik had meant when he had talked to her in the barn. To be brave come more easily if you knew nothing. She swallowed. "My Great-aunt Birte,"she lied, in a firm voice.¨ …show more content…
And soon she's off to give Herik his lunch. Suddenly out of nowhere a few nazi officers stop her. She tells them that's she's delivering lunch. But the dog smells something and he becomes suspicious. Then he grabs the basket and looks through the lunch and then he sees what the dogs are straining for. A handkerchief and he allows her to go on her way.
The conclusion of the book is when Annemarie gets to her uncle Henrik. That's when he tells her the handkerchief was important. The nazis brought dogs because so many people were escaping. They actually found many people while doing this. But the Sweden and Denmark scientists created a handkerchief that would confuse the dogs sense of smell.
And everything about the handkerchief was true. “The jews were smuggled across the Baltic sea (Kattegat) to Sweden in boats of local fisherman (like Henrik’s). Some fishermen built secret compartments in their boats to conceal people. These boats were often stopped in mid sea, and boarded by Nazi troops searching for jews. One of their instruments was specially trained police dogs. To counter this, scientists in Sweden and Denmark created a mixture of dried rabbits blood and cocaine, and lace handkerchiefs with this mixture. These were then distributed to the fishermen. When a dog smelled the rabbit’s blood, it would sniff the handkerchief. Exposure to the cocaine would temporarily destroy the