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Would you risk your life for your best friend? Would you let her stay in you house even though you could go to jail or even die for doing that? Well there are these two girls named Annemarie and Ellen. Ellen is Jewish, and they both live in apartments. They are both eleven and best friends. One day they were racing down the street in Copenhagen Denmark in the 1940’s when all of a sudden a soldier stopped them in their tracks. Then a few nights latter soldiers came to Annemarie’s house looking for Ellen’s family. Ellen and Annemarie were scared Ellen had to pretend to be Lise. A few days after that Ellen and Annemarie had to go to Uncle Henrick’s house. Annemarie’s mother went with them. They got to ride a train there. A few days later Ellen had to go to Sweden with her family, and leave Annemarie! Will they ever see each other again? Or will their friendship be lost forever?

Faith Lubner