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Germany invades Poland
This event is considered the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
Germany invades Denmark.
Denmark does not resist since the German forces are so much stronger. The lack of resistance may have made life easier for the Danish Jews. -
King Christian X rides through the streets of Copenhagen
The king rides through the streets on his birthday without a bodyguard. Annemarie decides that like the other Danish citizens she will be the king's bodyguard. -
Danish Resistance meeting is raided by German soldiers.
Lise Johansen is run over by German soldiers while fleeing from the meeting. -
Jewish Sabbath candles
Annemarie was often invited to visit the Rosens on Friday evenings to watch Mrs. Rosen light the Sabbath candles -
Danish King Christian X falls from his horse.
King Christian often rides through the streets of Copenhagen and on this occasion falls from his horse Jubilee and is badly injured. He becomes an invalid. -
German soldiers on the streets of Denmark
Annemarie and her friend Ellen are stopped by Nazi soldiers as they run through the streets in Copenhagen. The soldiers tell them not to run. -
Goods are rationed in Denmark
Goods such as coffee, tea, cigarettes, and leather are rationed since German occupation, -
Danish government resigns.
Germany has made more demands and rather than yield to these demands the government resigns. The next day German forces take control over the Danish military and police. -
Danish Navy destroys their own fleet
Danish Navy sinks their own ships so that the Germans cannot use them. Kirsti believes that the explosions are fireworks in honor of her birthday. -
Nazi soldiers close all businesses owned by Jews in Denmark
Annamarie and Kirsti find the store owned by Mrs. Hirsch closed with a padlock. -
Germans resolve to remove all Danish Jews from Denmark and send them to death camps.
Nazis have decided to round them up and send them to death camps where they would be exterminated. -
Jewish New Year
This morning the Nazis took the lists with names and addresses of all of the Danish Jews from the synagogues. At night the Nazis begin rounding up Danish Jews. Ellen spends the night at Annemarie's home. When the soldier asks her her name she says she is Lise Johansen. -
The Johansens travel to Henrik's by the coast of Denmark
Ellen travels with Annemarie and her mother and sister to visit Uncle Henrik. He is a fisherman who is a member of the Danish resistance. -
Funeral of Great Aunt Birte
Danish Jews gather at the home of Uncle Henrick waiting for darkness to travel to the fishing boats to hide and wait to travel to Sweden. They have a coffin and tell German soldiers that they are relatives who are mourning the death of their aunt. -
Danish resistance helps Danish Jews flee to Sweden.
Annemarie takes a package to her uncle that helps save her friends. Uncle Henrik and Peter help the Rosen's and other Jewish familes escape in fishing boats to Sweden. -
Peter Neilsen is executed in the public square at Ryvangen, in Copenhagen
The day before he was shot for his work with the Danish Resistance, Peter had written a letter from prision to the Johansens telling them that he was proud of what he had done for his country and for freedom -
The Johansens visit Peter's grave
The Johansens visit Peter's grave and put flowers on it. He had said in his letter that he wanted to be buried beside Lise but the German soldiers buried him and the other young men they had shot in a grave in the public square at Ryvangen. -
Denmark is liberated by England from Nazi occupation
Denmark was liberated from occupation by British forces led by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. -
Danish Jews return home
Danish neighbors have taken care of the homes and plants of their Jewish neighbors during their absence. Now they are returning home. Annemarie finds Ellen's necklace and hopes that she will see her friend and return it to her. -
Japanese surrender
Japenese surrender ending World War II.
