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Sarah Sawyer Grace Ribeiro Web-Based Learning Experience May 3, 2010 [] 1) Who inspired Lois Lowry to write Number the Stars? 2) What is the setting of Number the Stars? What was going on during the time this book takes place? [] 1) How is the Holocaust defined? 2) What is a word that means, “the Nazis were coming and used by the Germans to refer to the assembly, deportation and murder of Jew?” [] 1) What is the Jewish Resistance? What did they do? 2) Describe the war crime trials after WWII. [] 1) What year did the camps begin full operation of the genocide of the Jews? How many people were ultimately killed? 2) Who were some of the important people who fought to rescue thousands of Jewish people? [] 1) When did Adolf Hitler join and become the leader of the Nazi party? 2) What was Hitler arrested and imprisoned in Landsberg for? [] 1) What countries did the Nazis invade on April 9, 1940? 2) How many Jews were freed by Americans on April 30, 1945?
 * Complete the following worksheet before reading the novel, Number the Stars. Click on the websites and then answer the questions that follow. Enjoy! **