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  • Explain the plan to escape
    They would be divided into two groups. Peter would lead the strangers and mama would lead the Rosens to Henrik's boat.
  • What is this? How is this connected to the story?
    A casket. They made room in the house to receive Great aunt Birte's casket.
  • How is this relevant to the story? Explain what happened
    Mama broke her ankle on her way back home from the harbour. She tripped over a root and fell down.
  • What products were not available in Copenhagen?
    Coffee, tea, sugar, cupcakes, fuel, butter, beer.
  • What is this? Explain
    A packet. Peter asked Mr. Rosen to give to Henrik but he stumbled and dropped it. Annemarie took it Henrik in a basket. There was a handkerchief inside.
  • What excuse did mama give to the soldiers so as not to open the casket?
    Great aunt Birte had died of typhus and the germs could still be in her body.
  • Kirsti saw "fireworks" through the window. What were they in fact? What was mama's explanation?
    King Christian had to burn their own naval fleet because the German soldiers were approaching to take control.
  • What is this? Where was it? What was inside?
    A trunk. It was in Annemarie's bedroom. It contains Lise's clothes
  • What is this? Who brought it? What information did it contain?
    The Free Danes. An illegal newspaper that contained information about the Resistance. Peter brought it.
  • what is this? Who is the owner? what happens with it?
    It's the Star of David. It belongs to Ellen. Annemarie hid it so that the soldies did not find it.
  • Where and when does the story take place?
    In Copenhagen, Demark, during WWII (1943)