While escape seems almost impossible, you and some other inmates determine that you must try. You begin to dig a tunnel from your barracks toward the barbed wire fence and the forest beyond. It is dangerous. If you are detected, you will die a slow and agonizing death. Still you persist, slowly, quietly, hiding the dirt you remove from the tunnel in the rafters of your building.
Some inmates argue that living in the camp is, at least, predictable. They would rather not risk dying in the forest. But you and your friends are convinced that the day is coming soon when the Nazis will murder all the inmates of the camp. You are sure that the tunnel is your only path to life.
After three months of digging, you open the other end of the tunnel. It is exactly as you had planned it, far enough beyond the barbed wire so that you can escape undetected. Without hesitation, your group flees out the tunnel into the woods. Later, you hear that you left just in time; all the other inmates were killed within days.
The further away you get from the camp, the safer you will be. You consider heading toward Russia. However, a long trek like that would be very dangerous. Perhaps it would be safer to find a place of refuge nearby.
If you choose to travel eastward, continue to page 77.
If you decide to remain nearby, continue to page 78.