Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
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Book Reviews of Number the Stars
Book Review: Days of Doom!
Summary: 5 Stars
Days of Doom!It is in Copenhagen during a time of ethic cultural hate. The Nazi Germans are seeking to eliminate the Jews in Europe and caught in the middle of this terrible time is a family trying to escape this injustice. Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen, have a plan so they won't be separated. Annemarie's older sister sadly was killed in a car accident some years before but also opened the door for the family to pull off this plan. Annemarie's new older sister would be her best friend Ellen Rosen. Just how they would convince the Nazi's that this was so and maintain this secret throughout is a marvelous mystery of this book. From page to page one is left hoping Annemarie and Ellen deep hidden secret would not be discovered. When finally Ellen was successfully transported or "smuggled" to the neutral ground of Sweden their hopes were challenged daily and their faith was tested. The horror of this Nazi nightmare in witch human lives were treated without regard was somewhat softened by this beautiful story of a deep friendship and the trials of lasting love.
I like this book because it was based on a true story, and how life used to be for Jews. I've always liked books that have you hanging on what is going to happen next. I'm just thankful for everything that we have now and that just because you're a different religion doesn't mean you need to be treated differently. This book was interesting and I highly recommend this book to young adults if you like exciting books. If you like comedy I wouldn't recommend this book.
Book Review: Amazon Customer
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is about a young girl named Annemarie, her family and their role in helping Jewish families escape the Germans during World War II. The Nazi soldiers invaded and took control of Denmark and its Danes. Ellen is Annemarie's best friend and is Jewish. Ellen and her family, the Rosen's, must leave Denmark to go to Sweden where will be safe from the Nazi soldiers. Ellen is told to stay the night with the Johansen family once all of the Jewish citizen find out that the Germany have a list with their names on it and where they live. During this stay the soldiers come to the apartment complex where the Johansen and Rosen families live. The soldiers see that no one is living in the Rosen's apartment so they knock on the Johansen family's door wanting to know where the Rosen family has gone. While in the apartment the soldiers go into the room where Annemarie and Ellen are sleeping. Ellen pretends to be Annemarie's sister so that the soldiers will not catch onto what is going on. Annemarie ripped the necklace that Ellen wore, with the "Star of David", from her neck so that the German soldiers wouldn't think that she is Jewish. In order for the Rosen family to be safe they needed the help of Annemarie's Uncle Henrik. Uncle Henrik, was the captain of the boat in which the Rosen family and many other Jewish families were hidden from the German soldiers. I would recommend this book to everyone young and old! It is written with a great deal of suspence. Once I began the book I could not put it down!
Book Review: GREAT book! : )
Summary: 5 Stars
What do you think it would be like, as a Jew, getting stoped by two german soldiers on your way home from school? Well, in Lois Lowry's book, Number the Stars, it was pretty horrifying for Annemarie Johansen, a 10-year old girl living in Copenhagen, is faced with the knowledge that the Nazis are beginning to "relocate" the Jews in her city. Ellen Rosen, a neighbor and classmate of Annemarie's, is Jewish. Through a series of small acts of bravery, Annemarie and her family help the Rosens escape into neighboring Sweden, in a boat with a false bottom, operated by Annemarie's Uncle Henrik. Annemarie is called upon to ensure the Jews' safe passage when she has to deliver a package to Henrik, in the dark, because her mother has broken her ankle and cannot walk. Annemarie successfully delivers the package, and only later learns what could have happened had she not been able to dodge the soldiers who stop her in the woods. Once the war is over, Annemarie's parents tell her that her older sister, Lise, was part of the resistance movement and was killed for it. Annemarie realizes that she too, has helped Jews escape and feels proud to know and be friends with Ellen, even though she doesn't know if she'll ever see her friend again. At the end of the book, Annemarie decides to wear Ellen's Star of David necklace, as a sign of her friendship, until Ellen returns and can wear it herself.
I really enjoyed this book. I recomend it to everyone but especially if your into aventurous historical-history books!
Book Review: Number The Stars
Summary: 5 Stars
Do you ever wonder what it was like to live during World War I or World War II? Well I do even though I didn't live during that time. I know what it was like just because I read this book. It was about two families. One family was known as the Rosens and the other was known as the Johansons. The Rosens were Jewish but the Johansons were Danish. These families were like one even though they were two. Annemarie was the Johansons daughter and Ellen was the Rosens daughter. The Nazi soldiers are at every corner of every street and won't leave. The Nazi soldiers are after all the Jewish people in Denmark. Annemarie's family takes a life taking risk. Once the German soldiers got a list of all the Jews in Denmark they went to their houses and took them away to kill them because that was what they were told to do. So all the Jews started hiding. Since Ellen was Jewish she was hiding from the soldiers by pretending to be one of Annemarie's sister, but one night the German soldiers went to Annemarie's because Ellen's family was not home in the middle of the night. So the German soldiers thought the Johansons were hiding them even though they were hiding Ellen. They did question about Ellen but still don't know she is Jewish.
My opinion on this story is that I should really be thank full for everything and that I don't/ didn't have soldiers at the corners at the corners of my street.
I would recommend this book to someone who doesn't know what World War I or World War II was like
Book Review: Every young teen or older child should read this wonderful story
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is in about one out of four 6th grade classrooms (approximately), and should be in every 6th grade classroom. It is a wonderful piece of inspiring literature, which teaches a fine lesson in courage, as well as in neighbor love. Every child or young teen should read and digest these classic work of inspiring literature from the Nazi era. The neighbor love of Danish Christians, and others, saves thousands of Jews from annihilation and outwits the Nazis. Fine section in the end explaining where the fiction and history being and end. A complete work of excellence. Along with Simone Liebster's Facing the Lion Facing the Lion (Abridged Edition): Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe and, of course, The Diary of Anne Frank Diary of Anne Frank (Imprint Books), these would make the three must read books for children on the subject of the Jewish Holocaust. Holocaust poems in Dawn of a New Discovery: Poems of Life, Wonder, Conflict, and Far Away Places and Kindle version: Dawn of a New Discovery: Poems of Life, Wonder, Conflict, and Far Away Places