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Ellen and Annemarie were having a race then a Nazi soldier ordered them to halte.(Page 2)
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Nazi soldiers closed all shops ran by Jewish citizens. (Page 21)
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A brave young boy tells a Nazi soldier that all of Denmark would die for their king.(Page 12/13)
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King Christian X was so wise he did not fight the Nazis because he knew they would lose,and he even blew up his own Navy to keep it out of Nazi hands.(Page 32)
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Annemaries family takes in Ellen (because she is a Jew),and they pretend she is part of the family.This is because the Nazis are now putting the Jews in concentration camps (Page 34)
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The Nazis take the names of all the Jews and plan to arrest them.This means moving them to concentration camps.
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Nazis plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. (Page 37)
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Nazi soldiers might look for Jewish children in school so Ellen,
Annemarie and her family is going to take a little vacation.
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Annemarie,Annemarie mother,Kirsti and Ellen go to their uncle Henriks cottage to keep Ellen away from the Nazis,who are trying to arrest all of the Danish Jews.(Page 52).
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Annemaries father was talking in code to Henrik,so that Ellen could ot hear them and get super scared.(Page 53).
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Annemarie,Ellen,Kristi,and Mama were visting Uncle Henrik. Soldiers came on the train and asked people questions.
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When the soldiers are walking down the train isles,Kirsti tells them a bunch of secret informatoin about Ellen,but luckily the soldiers do not catch on to Kirsti's loudmouthing.(Page 55).
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The girls and Annes mom arrive safely at uncle Henricks and for the first day have a calm,safe playtime.(Page 61).
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They had applesauce for dinner,but there was no sugar cause the Nazis ratoned EVERYTHING.(Page 64).
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At dinner that night,there is no laughter like normal,probably because some plan is forming that involves Ellen.(Page 66).
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The grown ups tell Annemarie and all of the other children that a relative named Great Aunt Birte has died.Annemarie knoes something very suspicous is hapening,because she knows there never was a Great Aunt Birte.There was even a coffin with unknown contents in it. (Page 73).
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Uncle Henrik finaly confessed that he and Annes mother were lyng,Soon after that a few jews come(including Ellens parents) and also attend the[false] funeral.(Pages 76-81)
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Once all of the people are there,Uncle Henrik announces that he has to go fish (But he actualy goes to set up hisboat for their secret voyage.)(Page 83)
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Everyone is settling down when several soldiers bust in and ask whats happening.They talk to the soldiers politely and they leave,without doing any physical harm.(Page 85 and 86).
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The coffin turns out to be filled with blankets and other warm clothing.(Page 88 and 89).
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Peter Nielson(a resistance leader) gives the baby a drug so it will not awake and alert some Nazi soldiers.(Page 90).
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Peter leads the first group to where Uncle Henrik is waiting by his boat.(Page 91).
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All of the Jews that attended the fake funeral headed to the boat with Peter or Annes mother.(Page 93 and 94).
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Anne finds her mom just off the property witha broken ankle(she broke it tripping over a root)and helped her inside.She reported that all the Jews where safe with uncle Henrik.(Page 101 and 102)
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Annes mom finds a very important package that the Jews need on there mission and is asked to bring it to them.(Page 105).
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Annemarie is stopped bye four soldiers and theire dogs who ask her a bunch of questions,they even take everything but the package.Luckily,Annemarie gets away with the package(a special scented hankerchief).(Pages 113-118).
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Anne succesfully gives Henrik the hankerchief.(Page 119)
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Mama goes to the hospital to get her ankle fixed.(Page 124).
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The Jews arrive safely in Sweden.(Page 126)
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Peter was caught and shot by the Nazis and Annes parents tell her the true story of her sister Lises death.(Page 130).
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The war ended and all of Denmark rejoiced!(Page 132)