By: Carol MatasDaniel’s Story

Setting

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

Deportation

Palestine

Auschwitz

Buchenwald

Kristallnacht

Hitler Youth

Resistance

Lodz Ghetto

Setting

HomeFrankfurt in 1938.

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•This book starts mainly in the year March 30, 1933 in Frankfurt, Germany on Daniel’s sixth birthday.

•The main character is Daniel. Daniel’s father, Daniel’s sister Erika,and Daniel’s mother are the other characters that come up in the book the most.

Rising Action

HomeDeportation of Jews from Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, to

the Theresienstadt ghetto. Hanau, Germany, May 30, 1942.

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•The main rising action in this book is when Daniel and his whole family are getting deported and are on the train to the Lodz ghetto.

Climax

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Cheering survivors greet American troops as the first Allied tanks enter the Mauthausen concentration camp.

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•The climax in this book is when Daniel and his father are liberated from the death camp Buchenwald when the American soldiers come in the camp.

Falling Action

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A German postcard showing the entrance to the Lodz ghetto. The sign reads "Jewish residential area--entry forbidden." Lodz, Poland, 1940-1941.

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•The falling action in this book is when Daniel and his father go back to Lodz to find Rosa. Also, when they found Rosa, Rosa said she was with her when she died in a hospital.

Resolution

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German Jews try to emigrate to Palestine; long lines in front of the Palestine and Orient Travel Agency. Berlin,

Germany, January 22, 1939.

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•The resolution in this book is when Daniel asks Rosa to marry him, and they promise to move to Palestine and start a family.

Kristallnacht

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The Boerneplatz synagogue in flames during Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"). Frankfurt am Main,

Germany, November 10, 1938.

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•The Kristallncht “the night of broken glass,” was when the synagogues across Germany were burned and Jewish-owned businesses, schools, and homes were vandalized and looted. Thousands of Jews were arrested, and some were killed.

•Daniel’s fathers tool shop was vandalized and looted. The next day after that a German man came and took the shop to keep.

Home

•The Hitler Youth was a Nazi Party youth group that indoctrinated children and prepared them for leadership.

Hitler Youth

A Hitler Youth poses for a photograph in the Rhineland city of Bruehl, 1934. In 1939, membership in Nazi youth groups became mandatory for all boys and girls between the ages of ten and eighteen.

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Daniel’s grandmother, Miriam, made one of these suits for Daniel. She wanted him to have the freedom any boy should have even if you are Jewish. Daniel walked around town doing what he used to do with his non-Jewish friends that befriended him when Adolph Hitler came to power and passed the laws.

Deportation

HomeJews deported to the Lodz ghetto.

Poland, 1941 or 1942.

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•Daniel and his whole family including his cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents that have not already moved somewhere else are getting deported to the Lodz ghetto like the people in this picture here.

Lodz Ghetto

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The footbridge over Zgierska Street that joined the two parts of the Lodz ghetto. The street itself

was not part of the ghetto. Lodz, Poland, ca. 1941.

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•Daniel and his family gets deported here from Frankfurt, Germany in the year of 1941, October and luckily stays here until sometime in 1944.

Buchenwald

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American soldiers enter the Buchenwald concentration camp following the liberation of the camp. Buchenwald,

Germany, after April 11, 1945.

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•Daniel and his father are moved here after the allies got to close to the death camp Auschwitz. Daniel and his father end up getting liberated here by the American soldiers.

Auschwitz

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Gas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz immediately after liberation.

Poland, January 1945.

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•Daniel, his father, and Erika, Daniel’s sister, where moved here from the Lodz ghetto. Daniel was going to his hiding place so he didn’t have to go here, but was caught by two Gestapo guards on patrol and was forced on the train to Auschwitz. Daniel and his father eventually found each other when they got to Auschwitz, and then they found Erika later in the story.

Palestine

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A group of Polish Jewish refugee children known as the "Tehran Children" after their arrival in Palestine. Atlit,

Palestine, February 18, 1943.

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•Palestine is a region on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea that was the ancient homeland of the Jews. Palestine is now divided between Israel and Jordan.

• Daniel and Rosa promised each other after the war to get married and raise a family here.

Resistance

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Portable printing machine in a wooden case made for, and used by, the French resistance during WWII. Members of the French resistance used the machine to print false documents.

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•Daniel and his family did a lot of different types of resistance. For example, they kept a secret radio to listen to the “War News,” Daniel and his sister Erika where in a youth group that met to talk about what’s happing in the ghetto and what might happen next, Daniel and his father take apart a crematory at night in a death camp, at the end they do a little gun and bullet type of resistance, and lots, lots more!