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Creators: Esteban, Sarah and Sumin Editor: Sumin A Newsletter about the book: “Number of the Stars,” by Lois Lowery WW2

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Jewish

By: Sumin

Jews were crushed to death. Thirty thousand Jewish males were taken to concentration camps; and 1,668 synagogues were rummaged through

by Nazis. The Nazis burned 267 Jewish synagogues.

By World War 2, almost all Jewish organizations had either collapsed under economic pressure and declining profits, or had been forced to sell out to the Nazi-German government as part of the “ Aryanization� rule in 1937.

As the warfare started,

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enormous massacres of Jews took place.

Belguim , Romania, Luxemborg, Norway, and Estonia lost around half of their Jewish residents, the Soviet Union was missing over one third of its Jews, and even nations such as France and Italy each saw around a quarter of their Jewish population killed.

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World War Two

By: Sarah

World War Two was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1985. The war involved most of the world’s nations. World War 2 begun on September 1, 1939.

Germany set out to establish a large empire in Europe, Germany conquered much of Europe. The war ended with the total victory of the Allies over Germany and Japan in 1945. WW2 altered the political alignment an social structure for the world.

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Characters

By Esteban

One of the main characters from Number the Stars is Annemarie, she is a ten-year old girl that is brave, loyal, and she is helpful. She also helped her friend, Ellen in lots of tricky situation like when Annemarie yanked Ellen’s necklace so that the Nazis wouldn’t think she was Jewish.

scary situations like when the Nazis came to Annemarie’s house and Ellen was with them and Annemarie had to yank Ellen’s necklace of because the Nazis would think she is a Jew. Uncle Henrik is a fisherman.

He gives Annemarie lots of advice, that she uses in the book lots of times.

The Nazis are a very powerful Peter, is part of the ”Resistance army of people that can take over a Group” that saves Jews and finds info country faster than you blink ! The Naabout the Nazis. zis would build concentration camps around countries they already took over.

Ellen is Annemarie’s best friend. She is a Jew, She has been through many

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