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Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Hide and Seek by Ida Vos

Resolution

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Blackout/Resistance

This relates to our book because the city Rachel lives in does a blackout drill every night so the German bombers won’t see them

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A girl closes the curtains during a blackout drill

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This also relates to the Holocaust because many cities, like London, turned off all of the lights in the city so the German bombers would not see them.

PropagandaThis relates to our book because Rachel sees the “Eternal Jew” mural everyday on her way to school until one day she scrapes the eyes off with her umbrella

Nazi propaganda poster warning Germans about the dangers of east European "subhumans."

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This relates to the Holocaust because Hitler and the Nazi party used propaganda as a way of spreading their beliefs.

Round UpThis relates to our book

because Rachel and Esther have to hide behind the wall when the Nazis are searching

the home they’re hiding in during a round up.

Jewish residents are rounded up to be put in ghettos

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This relates to the Holocaust because Nazis would round up Jews to put them in ghettos or concentration camps.

Ban on ReligionThis relates to our book because Rachel has to pray at home because Jews are not

allowed to go to Synagogue

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Jewish people praying at home

This relates to the Holocaust because Jews were not allowed to practice their religion in public, synagogue, or in ghettos.

Secret churches

HidingThis relates to our book

because Rachel has to leave her hometown of Rotterdam

because the Nazis are looking for her family. She

also has to change her name to Ria.

a member of the Kovno ghetto hides supplies in a well used as the entrance to a hiding place in the ghetto

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This relates to the Holocaust because thousands of Jews survived the Holocaust by hiding.

Concentration Camps

This relates to our book because Rachel’s grandparents get sent to Auschwitz. Also, when Miep returns, Rachel sees her tattoo ID and, not wanting Miep to feel left out, draws her own ID number on her arm.

Jewish women freed from a factory in Mehlteuer display their tattoos.

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Concentration Camps

This relates to the Holocaust because about 4million Jews were sent to concentration camps throughout Europe.

Setting

The story is set in the Netherlands, in 1940. It begins with Rachel, a Jewish girl, and she is

standing in the street, watching the Nazi soldiers march through the city.

Nazis march down a street in Munich The Netherlands in 1940

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Rising Action

Netherlands capitulate and

surrender to the Germans

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When Rachel is sent into hiding, her escort removes her star and throws it in the sewer.

Rachel is sent into hiding and separated from her parents.

Netherlands in 1940

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Climax

The climax of the story is when Rachel

and Esther have to hide in the cabinet while the Nazis raid the house.

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Falling Action

Germany Capitulates

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German officers surrendering

People returning from concentration camps

Rachel’s family is reunited with the family that was sent to camps.

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Resolution

The resolution of the story is when the war is over and Rachel and her family can return to

Rotterdam.

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A family reunited after WWII

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