Daniel’s Story By Carol Matas

KristallnachtResistance

Aryan Pogroms

DeportationLiberationBoycott

Exposition

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Bibliography

Kristallnacht

• Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass”, was one of the biggest pogroms in the Holocaust. This happened on November 9-10th, 1938. Nazi SS officers destroyed thousands of Jewish-owned shops and property. In Daniels Story, Daniel is in Frankfurt at the time; Which was one of the towns the Nazis invaded.

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Destruction of the Dortmund synagogue during Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken

Glass"). Germany, November 1938.

Resistance

• During the Holocaust, Jews and Non-Jews alike, both fought against the Nazis when they knew the Russian forces were near. Most forms of resistance weren’t violent, but they were mental. Break laws that put a band on owning radios, bikes, and silverware. They even put a band on owning deck chairs. Daniel use physical resistance by shooting the Nazi guards when the Russians were almost in Buchenwald.

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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.

Aryan

The Germans referred to “The Perfect Germans” as the Aryan race. At this time, they thought that the Jews were consider the slave race and the Germans were considered the master race. When the Hitler Youth Children see Daniel and his friend walking home, they call them the slave race and them the master race or Aryan.

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A German man sitting in the park

Deportation

• When the Jewish people were loaded on the the trains and taken to the ghettos, they called it deportation. When Jews were deported to the camps, it usually meant that they were going to be either forced to work or killed in a death camp. Daniel get deported several times in this book.

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Deportation of Jews. Koszeg, Hungary, 1944.

Liberation

• When the Allied Forces won World War II, the started to liberate all the Jew kept in the ghettos, concentration camps,and death camps. The Buchenwald concentration camp was the camp Daniel was liberated from.

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Children at the liberation of the Auschwitz camp. Poland, January 1945.

Boycott

• The German boycotted Jewish shops so they wouldn’t earn any income to buy food. When the Jews found this out, they started to panic and worry about how they would get food. In Daniels Story, Daniels fathers shop is boycotted. That was their only income at the time and it was impossible for Jews to get jobs at companies that were German owned.

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A Jewish butcher standing behind the counter of his shop before Kristallnacht

Pogroms• An organized

massacre of Jews is called a pogrom (pronounced po-grum). When these pogroms happened hundreds of Jews at a time were either shot, burnt, or gassed until they died. Daniel witnessed hundreds of these pogroms in Auschwitz, Lodz, and Buchenwald.

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A Romanian civilian walks past the bodies of Jews killed on Cuza Voda Street during the Iasi pogrom.

Setting

• Daniel and his family are from Frankfurt, Germany. The Germans rule all of Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. Daniel is 12 at the time Nazi powers unite.

Map of Germany

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Exposition

• Daniel was from Frankfurt,Germany his town got taken over by the Germans. Hitler overthrew the town and threatened the towns people.People get sent into the ghettos and forced to work.

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Jews entering Lodz

Rising Action

• Daniel and his family get sent to the Lodz ghetto after his town is liquidated. Daniel, his sister, and his father are the only survivors, in his family, that get sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. While there, Erika, Daniel’s sister, is told to play her instrument in the band as Daniel, his father, and other workers are sent to the labor camps to make machinery for the Nazis.Erika dies before they are deported to Buchenwald. At Buchenwald, they do the same thing as they did in Auschwitz-Birkenau; made to do more work for the Germans.

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The entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Climax

• Daniel and his father are now in Buchenwald, one of thousands of concentration camps, with many other Jews. They shared a straw bed with another person. Jews from inside the camp plan to fight the Nazi SS officers to free them once and for all. After this happens, the Russians forces come to the camp and free all of the Jews that were kept there.

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Survivors of Buchenwald

Falling Action• After they

are freed, Daniel and his friend,Peter, go to Lodz, but on their way towards town, they get jumped by German men and Peter is hospitalized. He enters a coma and dies.

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Jewish Children after the liberation of Lodz

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Daniels Story book cover

Kristallnacht Photo

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Deportation Photo

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Falling Action Photo