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Daniel’s Story

Carol Matas

KristallnachtSmugglingDeath Camps

Resistance Pogrom Hitler Youth Ghettos

ClimaxRising Action

Resolution

Falling ActionExposition

Bibliography

Kristallnacht

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Jewish-owned shop destroyed during Kristallnacht (The night of broken glass)

Daniel’s dad had a store and on Kristallnacht it got broken into, its windows were smashed, and were over come by Nazis.

Smuggling Home

A young boy getting caught smuggling in the Warsaw ghetto by a German policeman.

Daniel and his father smuggled a radio and Erika’s violin. Many people did this in the Holocaust because they didn’t have many resources as it was, so they had to keep as much as they could.

Death Camps

Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Daniel went to both Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Both times he got shaved, disinfected, and shared his beds and soup with other men. They didn’t eat much because they had to share but also because they got very small rations. Home

Resistance

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Members of a Jewish resistance group

Daniel helped take over Buchenwald as a resistance movement. Also in the beginning of the story he hid some of his younger family members in a secret cabinet so the nazis would not find them and send them away.

Pogrom

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Romanian soldiers arresting a group of Jews.

Daniel’s mom was killed by a pogrom because she was a Jew. She was sent to the gas chamber because she was unhealthy. Pogrom is an organized attack for a certain group of people.

Hitler Youth

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This is the Hitler youth uniform that the young boys would wear.

Daniel’s aunt made a Hitler Youth uniform and he wore it around town. Nazis/Germans didn’t know he was Jewish, and they respected him. This proves that Nazis think that Germans were better than Jews. If you were a Jew and they didn’t know it and you wore a Hitler Youth uniform, you could not be arrested and sent to a ghetto.

Ghettos

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People trapped in the Lodz ghetto

Daniel lived in the Lodz Ghetto for long time, and this is important because when he was sent to Auschwitz and Buchenwald and survived, he came back to Lodz to find his friends and family as other people did.

Climax

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Daniel and his father helped fight off the Nazi’s until the Allies showed up and helped out the rest of the time. There were few Nazi soldiers left after that and the ones that were left begged for forgiveness.

Shortly before liberation by Allied forces, French

resistance fighters staged uprisings across occupied

France. Here, fighters gather arms during the

Marseille uprising. Marseille, France, August

1944.

Falling ActionThey survived because the allies helped the Jews fight off the Nazi’s. When they were finally free, Jew’s went out to find there families. Daniel and his father went out to look for Erika, Daniel’s sister, but she had became to weak and had died.

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Young survivors of the Buchenwald

concentration camp soon after liberation.

Germany, April-June 1945.

Resolution

Daniel and his father got back to Lodz to find Erika and Rosa. Towards the end of the book Daniel forced him self to fight back and not give up. Daniel finds Rosa and proposes to her, and she said “yes”.

A Jewish child, who had survived the war in hiding, in Lodz soon after the liberation

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Rising ActionDaniel was resisting the Germans by hiding from them instead of going on the train to the death camps, but the Nazi’s found him.

Daniel and many others were getting sick because of the lice, and being out in the cold all of the time.

Daniel resisted the Nazi’s by fighting back and killing the Nazi’s with guns to survive until the allies came.

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Jews getting caught hiding like Daniel did .

Exposition In the beginning of the story it started off as

Daniel and his family riding on a train to Lodz.

Some of the characters in this book are, Daniel, Erika, Nazis, Rosa, Daniel’s mom and dad, and Peter.

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Jews being deported on a freight train.

Bibliography

Courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. All of the pictures and information has came

from this museum except for slides 1and 7.

Slide 1 http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/crc/webquest/daniel/webquest/daniels_story/DSTORY/0590465880.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Slide 7 http://www.gurleyauctions.com/images/030109germanuniform4.jpg

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