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I Am A Star Entry #1 3/17/11 Summary Pages 1-5: The narrator, whose name isn't given, tells about her childhood in Germany. She was born in Kippenheim, Germany. Kippenheim was a small Jewish village in Germany. The synagogue she worshipped in was very bright and decorative.

Vocabulary: Hebrew: of the Jewish religion fortification: a building with tall walls textile: branch of industry involved in the manufacture of cloth festive: cheerful synagogue: Jewish house of worship

I Am A Star Entry #2 3/18/11 Summary Pages 5-9: There was a strong bond in the village of Kippenheim among the Jews. The narrator's father served in World War I and got wounded. He was rewarded with the Iron Cross. Most of the narrator's family made a living by buying and selling cattle as did most of the Jews in Kippenheim. On November 9, 1938, an event called Kristallnacht, or Night of the Broken Glass, happened. Kristallnacht was a massive riot.

Vocabulary: Iron Cross: an award given to German soldiers for World War I herald: a person or thing viewed as a sign something is going to happen tranquil: free from disturbance incarceration: in a particular place barrack: accommodations in a building or set of buildings

I Am A Star Entry #3 3/24/11 Summary Pages 10-13: This chapter talks about the roots of anti-Semitism. Jews came to Europe in A.D. 400. Churches said Jews were "Christ-killers" and Jews were evil. During the Middle Ages in some parts of Europe, Jews were to live in a ghetto. Christians said Jews started the plague by practicing black magic. During the 1870's Jews were treated as equal people in Germany. Some Germans didn't like that Jews had equal rights. After World War I Germans were starting to blame Jews for all of Germany's problems. Anti-Semitism gathered support and the Nazis were about to emerge.

Vocabulary: patriarch: biblical figures regarded as fathers of the human race sanctify: declare holy ailing: in poor health proclaiming: announce officially or publically imposed: forced to be accepted or put in place

I Am A Star Entry #4 4/3/11 Summary Pages 14-16: This chapter is about Hitler's rise to power. Hitler was arrested on November 8, 1923, for the event known as, "The Beer Hall Putsch," which was a rally in a Munich beer hall that called for a Nazi revolution against the Bavarian government. During his time in prison, he wrote a book called //Mein Kampf (My Struggle.) Mein Kampf// suggested to remove all Communists and Jews in Germany, and to establish the Third Reich to last for 1,000 years. Many Germans agreed with Hitler's ideas in //Mein Kampf.// On January 30, 1933, Hitler was appointed chacellor of Germany ailing President von Hindenburg, who died 18 months later. After Hindenburg's death, Hitler became dictator of Germany. Hitler's government was made up of lies and deception. Hitler's dictatorship was about 2 things: //lebensraum// and //judenfrage.//

Vocabulary: nationalist: a member of a political group advocating or fighting for national independence contended: to strive in debate doctrine: a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government lebensraum: the belief Germany needed more land and was entitled to invade her neighbors in order to get it judenfrage: the theory the entire Jewish race had to be eliminated

I Am A Star Entry #5 4/5/11 Summary Pages 17-22: This chapter describes the stages of destruction for the Jewish people. First, from 1933 to 1938 Hitler deprived Jews of their rights. On September 15, 1935, the Nuremburg Laws were introduced. The Nuremburg Laws were anti-Semitist racial laws. On November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan walked into the German embassy in Paris, France and shot Ernst vom Rath, a minor German official. Herschel Grynszpan was a 17-year-old Polish student. Vom Rath died from his wounds 2 days later in November 9, 1938. Kristallnacht occured becuase of this incident. During Kristallnacht, Germany's and Austria's Jews had a massive riot at their expense. Jewish business, homes, and Synagogues were burned to the ground. Jewish men were either sent to concentration camps or shot. After Kristallnacht, Nazis made life impossible for the Jews. First Nazis relocated Jews to ghettos and concentration camps. Second, special death squads called "Einsatzgruppen" killed a high percentage of Jews. However, the Nazis felt the extermination wasn't going fast enough. Nazis would make extermination camps to kill Jews systematically.

Vocabulary: decree: a formal and authoritative order, especially one having the force of law deport: to expel from a country quota: a proportional part or share of a fixed total amount or quantity liquidate: to get rid of, especially by killing pity: sympathetic

I Am A Star Entry #6 4/8/11 Summary Pages 23-28: The narrator's name is Inge Auerbacher. In May 1939, the Auerbachers fled from their house in Germany. They decided to stay with Inge's grandparents in Jebenhausen. Soon Inge's grandfather died. The family stayed two years in Jebenhausen. Some of Inge's happiest moments were there. The Auerbachers and their parents were the only Jews in Jebenhausen. There was a little anti-Semitism there. Still, in Jebenhausen, new decrees were announced every day. Christians were forbidden to associate with Jews. However a Christian family friend named Therese gave the Auerbachers food every day by putting it behind the grandpa's gravestone. Inge had to walk two miles every day to Goeppingen to attend school. This became hazardous when Jews were required to wear the yellow Star of David on their clothes.

Vocabulary: succumbed: to yield to disease, wounds, and old age frenzy: extreme mental agitation implication: something suggested to be naturally understood heckled: to harass commemorated: to serve as a memorial or reminder of

I Am A Star Entry #7 4/10/11 Summary Pages 28-34: The families heard rumors of the "final solution." Those rumors turned out to be true. Inge's father was a disabled veteran of World War I. He used this hopingly so the Nazis would leave the family alone. This worked for his wife and kids, (for a short time) but not his mother. On August 22, 1942, everyone was deported. They were sent to Stuttgart, the main local place for transporting Jews. Inge was the youngest of the 1200 people there.

Vocabulary: frantic: desperate or wild with excitement avail: to be of use or value to  meager: thin plea: an appeal ponder: to consider something deeply and thoroughly

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I Am A Star Entry #8 4/12/11 Summary Pages 35-40: The family was sent to Terezin, or Theresienstadt. Terezin was a "model ghetto" for propaganda purposes. Terezin consisted of huge brick barracks, underground cells, and broken down houses. Terezin was built to house 7,000 people, but sometimes 60,000 people were prisoners there. Between 1941 and 1945, 140,000 people were sent to Terezin.

Vocabulary: transit: from one place to another prominent: standing out so as to be seen easily miraculously: having or seeming to have the power to work miracles malnutrition: lack of proper nutrition solitary: alone

I Am A Star Entry #9 4/14/11 Summary Pages 41-48: A woman named Mrs. Rinder befriended the family. Her husband, Mr. Rinder worked in the kitchen and could give the family extra food. However, in the fall of 1944, the rinders were sent to Auschwitz and gassed. Rationing became a problem for the family. During Inge's birthdays, she received a miniscule potato cake, a new dress for her doll, and a poem from her mother.

Vocabulary: gruesome: causing great horror inhuman: lacking qualities of sympathy, pity, warmth, and compassion envy: to want to be in the position of regretfully: to wish you haven't done later irritable: easily annoyed

I Am A Star Entry #10 4/17/11 Summary Pages 49-56: Inge gets scarlet fever and other sicknesses, so she is sent to a "hospital." Before her 8th birthday, Inge was released from the hospital. Inge's mother's job in Terezin was to do laundry for typhus patients. Her dad would scavenge for items in trash cans. On November 11, 1943, some prisoners escaped from Terezin. An entire count had to take place outside the camp. It was a miserable day and no one was given food. There was a high death toll that day from the weather.

Vocabulary: perpetual: continuing or enduring forever dysentery: diarrhea mica: any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae; isinglass dismay: to break down courage completely grizzle: to make or become gray or partly gray

I Am A Star Entry #11 4/19/11 Summary Pages 56-62: On June 23, 1944, the Red Cross wanted to investigate rumors of concentration camps committing mass murder. The Nazis showed the Red Cross Terezin, which they made look like concentration camps were places of happiness and joy. Meanwhile, Eichmann wanted a constant flow of prisoners from Terezin to be gassed in Auschwitz.

Vocabulary: sardine: any of various similar, closely related fishes of the herring family Clupeidae spared: to refrain from harming or destroying immense: vast; huge; very great antechamber: a chamber or room that serves as a waiting room and entrance to a larger room or an apartment whims: an odd or capricious notion or desire

I Am A Star Entry #12 4/22/11 Summary Pages 63-70: Inge befriends a girl named Ruth. Ruth gets sent to a death camp becuase of her Jewish heritage, even though she considered herself Christian. On May 8, 1945, they were liberated by the Soviet Army. The prisoners had to live in the camp a litter longer becuase of a typhus epidemic. A bus comes and picks up the survivors of Terezin.

Vocabulary: embark: to venture typhus: an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of // Rickettsia, // transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body boisterous: rough and noisy bartered: to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money insisted: to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention

I Am A Star Entry #13 4/25/11 Summary Pages 71-76: The family goes to a camp in Stuttgart, which cares for Jewish refugees. Later, the family went to Jebenhausen to look for Inge's grandma. She lost her life in the war. So they looked for Therese, their Christian friend. Therese also lost her life in the war. A Christian family took over the house and let the family live there. They found permanent living quarters in Goeppingen. The Auerbachers later decided to immigrate to America in May 1946.

Vocabulary: relish: liking reprisal: retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries disembarked: to go ashore from a ship displaced: lacking a home, country, etc dismay: to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt

I Am A Star Entry #14 4/26/11 Summary Pages 77-80: Inge wonders why the good people of the world didn't speak out against the Holocaust. She also explains how Jews couldn't defend themselves very well. Inge also explains some statistics of the war. A total of 50 million lives were lost. 2/3 of all European Jews had been slaughtered. Inge's wish is for every child to grow up without hunger and prejudice.

Vocabulary: barbarism: uncivilized, wild, savage, and/or crude nunneries: a building for nuns superhuman: above or beyond what is human phenol: carbolic acid condemned: to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicatestrong disapproval of

I Am A Star Entry #15 4/26/11 Summary Pages 81-87: There is a "timetable" and "suggested further readings" sections. There is also "acknowledgements" and "about the author" section.

Vocabulary: heartfelt: deeply or sincerely felt <a href="http://www.ourstory.com/register_user.html?slink=timeline1" title="Start your own timeline at OurStory.com">Start your own timeline at OurStory.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal;">ardent: <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">having, expressive of, <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">characterized by intense <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">feeling; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">passionate; fervent omission: to leave out avid: enthusiastic abroad: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">in or to a foreign country or countries

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