Transcript Daniel and his sister Erika where in a youth - Mr. Jeffers Block 8-9

Daniel’s Story
Deportation
By: Carol Matas
Palestine
Setting
Auschwitz
Rising
Action
Buchenwald
Kristallnacht
Climax
Hitler Youth
Falling
Action
Resistance
Lodz Ghetto
Resolution
Setting
•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.
•This book starts mainly in
the year March 30, 1933 in
Frankfurt, Germany on
Daniel’s sixth birthday.
Frankfurt in 1938.
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Rising Action
•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.
Deportation of Jews from Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, to
the Theresienstadt ghetto. Hanau, Germany, May 30, 1942.
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Climax
•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.
Cheering survivors greet American troops
as the first Allied tanks enter the
Mauthausen concentration camp.
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Falling Action
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.
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Resolution
•The resolution in
this book is when
Daniel asks Rosa
to marry him, and
they promise to
move to Palestine
and start a family.
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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Kristallnacht
•The Kristallncht “the night of
broken glass,” was when the
synagogues across Germany
were burned and Jewishowned businesses, schools, and
homes were vandalized and
looted. Thousands of Jews
were arrested, and some were
killed.
The Boerneplatz synagogue in flames during
Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"). Frankfurt
am Main, Germany, November 10, 1938.
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•Daniel’s fathers tool shop was
vandalized and looted. The
next day after that a German
man came and took the shop to
keep.
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Hitler Youth
•The Hitler Youth was a Nazi Party
youth group that indoctrinated
children and prepared them for
leadership.
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.
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Deportation
•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.
Jews deported to the Lodz ghetto.
Poland, 1941 or 1942.
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Lodz Ghetto
•Daniel and his family
gets deported here
from Frankfurt,
Germany in the year
of 1941, October and
luckily stays here until
sometime in 1944.
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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Buchenwald
•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.
American soldiers enter the Buchenwald concentration
camp following the liberation of the camp. Buchenwald,
Germany, after April 11, 1945.
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Auschwitz
•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.
Gas chamber in the main camp of
Auschwitz immediately after liberation.
Poland, January 1945.
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Palestine
•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.
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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Resistance
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!
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