Number The Stars

It is 1943,and for Annemarie Johansen ,life in Copenhagen is a complicated mix of ordinary home and school time , food shortages and the constant presence of Nazi soldiers .bravery seems a vague virtue one possessed by dragon slaying night in the bedtime stories she tells her younger sister Kirstie as the German troops begin their campaign to relocate all the Jews of Denmark the Johansens take in Annemarie’s best friend Ellen Rosen, and pretend she is part of the family the girls live like sisters until it becomes clear something more needs to be done to see if Alan her family and the Jews of Denmark in this tale of an entire nations hero ism the story of the Danish resistance and their plan to smuggle the entire Jewish population of Denmark nearly 7000 people across the sea to Sweden is told with pride and hope through one young girls eyes