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= = ==//Number the Stars// is a novel about the Holocaust of World War II by author Lois Lowry. It focuses around ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen, who is living in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1943 and is caught up in the events surrounding the rescue of Danish Jews. She and her family risk their lives to help Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, by pretending that she is Annemarie's older sister who died earlier in the war as part of the Resistance. ==