Number the Stars Ch 17-After: Cloze Sentences

"Papa?" she said, returning to the balcony, where her father was

standing with the others, watching the ____ and happy crowd, She opened her

hand and showed him the necklace. "Can you fix this? I have kept it all this

long time. It was Ellen's."

Annemarie Johansen is a child of my imagination, though she grew

there from the stories told to me by my friend Annelise Platt, to whom this

book is dedicated, who was herself a child in Copenhagen during the long

years of the German ___________.

During World War 2, the Jews had suffered ____________ of their freedom to live.

But Annemarie forced herself to think of her redheaded almost-brother, and how ______ the day was when

they received the news that Peter had been captured and killed by the Germans in the public square at Ryvangen, in Copenhagen.

Her father took it from her and examined the broken ____. "Yes," he

said. "I can fix it. When the Rosens come home, you can give it back to

Ellen."

But Papa shook his head. "She was with Peter and others in a cellar

where they held secret meetings to make plans. Somehow the Nazis found

out, and they ______the place that evening. They all ran different ways,

trying to escape.

Their neighbors suffered during those years, and the ____they made to save others in the Jewish community.

The Danish flag was raised everywhere. People stood in the streets and _________ with tears as

they sang the national anthem of Denmark.

Carefully she spread open the skirt of the dress and found the place

where Ellen's necklace lay hidden in the pocket. The little ___________ still

gleamed gold.

Even Kirsti was growing up; no longer was she a lighthearted _____of a child, who liked to talk a lot.