number the stars
TRANSCRIPT
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?
• 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…..