1. PARALLEL JOURNEYS By: Eleanor Ayer W/ Alfons Heck And Helen Waterford
Hitler Takes Power
Hitler Youth
Kristallnacht
Betrayal of Jews
Concentration camps
Germany loses war
Move to America
PARALLEL JOURNEYS
By: Eleanor Ayer
W/ Alfons Heck
And Helen Waterford
Helen Waterford
Alfons Heck
Setting
Rising action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution

2. Hitler Takes Power Alfons Helen Hitler leading army
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Hitler Takes Power
Alfons
Helen
Alfons is enthusiastic when Hitler comes to power because it means he can join Hitler Youth.
Hitler also tells them that they will rule the world some day.
For Helen, Hitler coming to power means doom because of all the things he has been saying about them.
It also forces them to move away from home. (to Amsterdam)
Hitler leading army

3. Hitler preaching to Youth
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Hitler Youth
Alfons
Helen
Alfons joins the Hitler Youth as soon as he can because of the promises Hitler makes them.
Hitler brainwashed Alfons and the other Hitler Youth so they were doing bad things and they didn’t know about it.
When more and more kids joined the Hitler Youth that meant that more and more people were against the Jews.
The Hitler Youth served as more German police enforcing new laws concerning the Jews.
Hitler preaching to Youth
Hitler Youth

4. Kristallnacht Alfons Helen
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Kristallnacht
Alfons
Helen
On the Kristallnacht Alfons and other Hitler Youth were throwing rocks and other objects at Jewish building and shops.
This is the night where Germans determined whether or not they followed Hitler, Alfons parents didn’t but he did.
This is the night that Hitler followers really showed the Jews their hate for them.
The Jewish synagogues and stores were burned leaving the Jews without jobs, food, and places to pray.
After Kritallnacht
Synagogue burning

5. Boy being arrested by Nazis
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Betraying of Jews
Helen
Alfons
Many Jews were sold out and betrayed by the Germans they were living with because the Germans were bribed with the Jews possessions and money.
This led to Helen being arrested by the Nazis in her hiding place.
Alfons was not affected by the arresting of Jews, neither was the rest of the Hitler Youth, they were brain washed into thinking it was right.
Boy being arrested by Nazis

6. Train entrance to Auschwitz
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Concentration Camps
Alfons
Helen
When the Jews are beginning to be sent to concentration camps like Auschwitz, it is the downfall of most of them, seeing as most of them die In the concentration camps.
This is also when most Jews are separated from their families like Helen was from Doris.
When Auschwitz opens this is when Hitler makes a big lie, a lie saying that the Jews are just being sent to work, not to be killed.
When Alfons and other Hitler youth find out what is happening to the Jews this is when they start to believe what Hitler was a mad man.
Train entrance to Auschwitz

7. Germany loses war Alfons Helen
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Germany loses war
Alfons
Helen
After Germany loses the war Alfons and other Hitler Youth are in a state of shock and disbelief that the fatherland had lost.
After the war Hitler Youth and Nazis are forced to choose between life and supporting their country, Alfons chose to take his life.
When the war ends, the Americans free the slaves at the concentration camps and are free from the wrath of the Nazis.
Once the War is over the Jews can begin to rebuild their lives if they aren't to scarred from the camps.
German town destroyed

8. The move to America Helen Alfons
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The move to America
Helen
Alfons
When Helen moves to America he can start to heal from the things happening to her in Germany, as did other Jews. America was the place of freedom.
Other Jews moved to America to forget, they didn’t want to remember what had happened to them.
When Alfons moves to America he can rebuild his life as and American, not as a Nazi.
Many other Nazis after realizing what had happened right under their nose moved away hoping to create a new peaceful life.

9. Setting Alfons Helen War
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Setting
Helen grew up in Frankfurt Germany.
After Helen and her husband Seigfried got married, they moved to Amsterdam to try to get away from Hitler.
Later her and Seigfried were taken to Auschwitz concentration camp.
She and her daughter Doris moved to America After the war.
Alfons grew up in the Rhineland region of Germany on the Mosel river.
When he was 6, he moved to the large industrial city of Oberhausen.
After that he lived In Wittlich Germany while he was in the Hitler Youth
Later after the war Alfons moved to America where he made a new life in Canada.
War
The war took place all over Germany, Poland, Japan, Italy, America, and many more places.
WW ll Battlefield

10. Rising Action Alfons & Helen Hitler takes power
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Rising Action OF
Alfons & Helen
Hitler takes power
Alfons joins Hitler Youth
Helen gives up her child
Helen goes into hiding
Helen and Seigfried go to Auschwitz
Alfons gets promoted into higher ranks
Alfons farm gets bombed killing his animals
Helen gets moved to a work camp away from Seigfried

11. Home
Climax
The climax of the book was when Germany admitted defeat… The book said “Officially the German government had surrendered on May 7. The next day, American President Harry S. Truman and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared the war in Europe to be over. All fighting was to end by 11:01 P.M. on May 9th 1945.”

12. Falling Action Alfons and Helen
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Falling Action OF
Alfons and Helen
Helen traveled through the destroyed German towns on her way home.
Alfons goes to the court trial of Nazi officers.
Alfons visits his destroyed farm.
Helen meets Doris again, but Doris doesn’t accept her.
Alfons decides to move to Canada to start a new life.
Helen creates a new life in her old town, but finally decides to move to America with family.
Helen meets Robert Waterford and they get Married.

13. Resolution Alfons Helen
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Resolution
Alfons and Helen meet in America after Helen read an article by Alfons. They meet up and finally become partners in making speeches at colleges and other places across the country talking about the danger of the Holocaust and how it can never happen again.
Alfons
Helen
Helen and Alfons