TASK

It is September, 1941, and you are citizens of Denmark. As a Dane, you take great pride in your idyllic country's way of life.

Rumors of war and increasing racial intolerance of disabled, African, Slavic, and especially Jews, enter the borders of your country in April of 1940. Newspapers are now censored by the Nazis, thus the Danish print illegal newspapers to reveal the truths.

Then, in September 1941, a German informer leaks to a Jew that the Nazis will take the Jews as their prisoners, transporting them to a concentration camp. The Danes, however, refuse to stand for it. The non-Jewish Danes immediately hide the Jews and ferry them to safety across the strait to neutral Sweden.

Denmark proved that though their numbers were small, resistance to an enemy can prevail. Most, but not all, of the 8,000 Jewish citizens of Denmark were saved.

The class will read the novel, Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry. While reading the novel, the students will work on a project related to the text. In this webquest, each team is to complete the following task -

Your peace-loving country, Denmark, has been overtaken by the Nazis, and now threaten to imprison 8,000 of your Jewish citizens. Your task - to outsmart the Nazis and save the Jews.

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