Number the Stars: Chapters 1-3

• Lois Lowry is the author of Number the Stars and received the 1990 Newbery Medal for it.
• The book is dedicated to Annelise Platt, a friend of Lowry’s, who was a child in Copenhagen during the German occupation.
• The story is set in 1943 during the German occupation of Denmark.
• The protagonist, Annemarie Johansen, is ten years old.
• Annemarie lives in Copenhagen with her parents and her younger sister, Kirsti.
• Annemarie's best friend is Ellen Rosen.
• The girls are stopped by German soldiers for running; the soldiers' poor Danish language skills are a point of contempt for Annemarie.

"Halte!"

• "Halte!" is the German word shouted by the soldier.
• Soldiers are stationed at street corners throughout Copenhagen
• The Johansen family and the Rosens have "coffee" (hot water with herbs) together in the afternoons.
• Real coffee and tea are unavailable due to the Nazi occupation.
• The Resistance is Danish people who sabotage the Nazis.
• Peter Neilsen occasionally brings the illegal newspaper, De Frie Danske, which translates to "The Free Danes".
• Peter brings joy to his visits
• Peter brings two seashells as gifts, one for each girl and two bottles of beer for Annemarie's parents.
• Jewish-owned stores are being closed and friends are tasked with taking care of them
• Mr. Rosen doesn't have a shop, he's a teacher
• Peter tells the Johansens that the Germans are closing stores owned by Jews, and the Rosens are also Jewish.
• The Rosens will be safe elsewhere.
• Annemarie realizes Denmark must be bodyguard for the Jews.
• Peter tells Annmarie it's way past her bedtime and hugs her before leaving
• The Danish friend served as the prototype for the fictional Annemarie.
• Lise, Annemarie’s older sister, died in an accident two weeks before her wedding.
• Lise intended to marry Peter.
• Peter visits the Johansens, though it is dangerous due to the curfew in Copenhagen.
• Peter brings them two bottles of beer
• He has helped Ellen's parents to go elsewhere
• Peter is hurred and usually brings things Annemarie didn't understand
• Lise’s trousseau remains in a blue carved trunk in the corner of the bedroom.
• Annemarie touches Lise's things when alone to remember her.
• Peter has not married since Lise’s death and has changed a great deal.
• Papa says he has 3 daughters tonight.
• The girls play with paper dolls: Melanie and Scarlett are going to a ball, Bonnie is Scarlett's daughter.
• Kirsti gets a pair of new fish skin shoes, but is disgusted because they are green
• Ellen offers to have her father use black ink to dye them
• The German occupation forces burned part of Tivoli Gardens.
• Annemarie remembers the fireworks on Kirsti's birthday were for the destruction of the Danish naval fleet.
• Ellen is Jewish and Kirsti is not
• Jewish New Year is coming up
• Mrs. Rosen agrees Ellen will stay at the Johansens following the day at Synagogue
• On the Synagogue Rabbi warned his congregation about Danish Jews imprisonment by the Nazis
• They plan to take them away
• The Rabbi said relocation is going to happen as the Nazis have taken he synagogue lists of all the Jews and they may come tonight
• Peter Nielsen is the fiance of her dead sister Lise
• Annemarie wins the girls' footrace.
• Ellen always plays the leading roles in school plays.
• Mrs. Johansen promised Kirsti a story during bedtime
• In the second floor of the Rosen's apartment is Ellen lives.
• She doesn't want to got to school
• This is why she waved to the girls
• Kirsti has a button broken and she can't go as Mrs Hirsch's closed
• She is ill or in vacations
• It got a German signal in the sign
• Mrs. Rosen didn't think it affects them as Mrs Rosen's didn't have a shop
• There is a curfew in Copenhagen, and no citizens allowed out after 8 PM
• That's way he can visit at this time is frightening
• The families had two bottles of beer

Annemarie on Lise's Death

• Lise and Pter were out
• Suddenly received a telephone call
• They took Mama and Papa went on hospital
• Your mother came and stayed with Kirsti and me
• She slept through everything' she was so little then.
• I was with your mother in the living room when mama and papa came home and told me Lise had died.
• Ellen remembers it and said
• It was still raining the next morning when mama told me.
• Remember' Mama was crying and the rain made it seem as if the whole word was trying
• Mama and Papa never looked at those things, not since the day they packed them away.
• She would have looked so beautiful in her wedding dress. She had such a pretty smile
• What I used to pretend that she was my sister, too.
• She whispered
• That's the wrost thing in the world. To be dead so young.
• Would't want the German to take my family

Question for Annemarie

• They wor't really come here, do you think?
• You're safety is the most important thing. I'm sure your parents wold you
• Peter tells Annemarie to keep an eye on Ellen and to stay away from the soliders from what happened on Oestebrogade
• That all of Denmark would be the King's bodyguard. . so we shall, - Papa replied.
• And he always keeps his promises. And you are quite safe, here with us.
• As a light touch on the bedroom door.

The Raid

• It was hours later, but still dark,, when Annemarie had a light touch on the bedroom door.
• She could se mama and Papa in their nightclothes, they had dared to use the strictly rationed electricity after dark
• She saw that her mother look automatically that they are tightly drawn. at the blackout curtai
• The father opened the front door to the soliders
• The voice asked of Danish accent
• I see you have to flash light
• Our name is on the boat
• "Sophy Rosen is by friend, that is true that Mama said quietly

Nazis Search the Apartment

• Nazis barge late at night.
• The Rosen Family is friends with the Johansen Family, as they ask the whereabouts.
• Annemarie opened her bedroom door in silence
• Ellen was sitting up, her eyes wide
• Annemarie eased the bedroom door closed
• Silently" she stumbled though the darkness to te bed
• Ellen's han flew to her neck
• Desperately she began trying to unlock the tint clasp
• The harsch voices and heavy footstep
• It was hister.

Claiming to be Lise

• Ellent swallowed
• Cleared her throat" Lise Johansen
• The officer stared at the Grimly
• Mama said in a stron voice; ypu have see tat we are, not hiding anything.
• May my children go back to bed?.
• The office ignored her.
• Sudenly he grabbed a handful of Ellen's hair .
• Ellen winced.
• He laughed scorefully. You have a blonde child sleeping in the other room.

The Lie

• Mama said Anmarie's mother had already told what happened to Osterbrogade
• And you have this blind daugher
• I will report treatment
• Maybe you got her some place else?
• Mama moved swiflty all bookcase an dtake out a book.
• family photograph album
• He will release Ellen's hair

The Soldier

• He released Ellen's hair
• Kirsten Elizabeth
• Let the paragraph fall to the floor
• He told the story to Ellent
• The baby the name is Lise and he start with the first letter
• They could not see his face but he had a good memory and Annemrie
• There were soldier and they had just the numbers of the pictures

Summary of chapters 1-3 from Number the Stars. The story introduces Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen living in Copenhagen during the German occupation. The girls encounter German soldiers and learn about the growing dangers faced by Jewish people in Denmark.