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The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the bookstarts she is ten years old, she lives in the ending town of Buczacz with her four brothers,Moshe, Zachary, Bunio, and Herzl, and her mother and father . The holocaust experiencebegan subtly at first when the Russians began to occupy Buczacz. When her brotherMoshe was killed at a Boys School in Russia and her father was gathered up byGerman authorities, the reality of the whole situation quickly became very real. Her fatherwas taken away shortly after(prenominal) the Russians had moved out and the Germans began tooccupy Buczacz. Once the Germans occupied, they moved the Jewish population ofBuczacz into mass ghettos. Alicia and the rest of her family had to share a house withseveral other families which had alike been driven out of there homes. The only source ofincome in this situation was to sell things at the marketplace, and even there, Jews wereforbidden. Alicia went anyway and sold what she could for food and money.One twenty-four hour period her brother Bunio disappeared from the ghetto. Alicia and her familyfound out later that he had been taken to a work camp, but that they could send foodpackages to him. Shortly after this, Alicia was taken into handcuffs by German officials andput on a train to another work camp. Alicia managed to escape from this train by jumpingthrough a belittled window. She found her way to a river which led her back to the ghetto. By this time several people in the ghetto had been feeling the effects of the impoverishedconditions. Starvation, Typhoid, and other diseases, were root to take its toll on thepeople who lived in the ghetto. Then one day, Alicia found out that her brother Bunio hadbeen killed in the work camp. A boy had fly so they lined up all the boys and shotevery fourth one. As time progressed, Alicia began assuming more responsibility for the daily tasks of the family much(prenominal) as going out and trading for more food in p laces other than themarketplace. While this was going on, Zachary and a few other boys from the ghetto hadbeen forming a break up of resistance. One day Alicia was informed that her brother had beenhanged. After Zacharys death, Alicia was besupportered by a woman named Bella. She metmany good friends in the ghetto including a future friend as well as savior, Milek ... ...and the police wanted to find out who was buying things from her. Over a spanof 8 months they were kept but in the long run they were released. They received a lot of moneyfrom people that had been saved by their withholding of evidence. Alicia and her friendtook this money and bought a train ticket to Lodz. They were stopped in Lvov becausethey went to get some tea while stopped at a station, but the train took off without themand they left all of their belongings on the train. neighboring they boarded a train to Krakow,and parted ways there. In Krakow, Alicia was staying at a rather large house with anothe rfamily. She built a sort of orphans asylum by gathering up homeless children from theneighborhood. She lived with this family for a long time, and during this time she learnedabout a way that she could go to Eretz Island, Israel where she could be safe. She left herorphans asylum and went on a long journey where she met many people that were like her, inthat she didnt like to see people suffer. Alicia made it to Israel but was taken by British border patrol officers to a jail onCypress for coming into the country illegally. She was then released from Cyprus.