You leave the city on a barge which is traveling south along the Duna River, concealed under bags of potatoes, you can hardly breathe, but at least you escaped the net which Adolf Eichmann has thrown over Budapest's Jewish community. You were right in believing that the Germans would never accept Swedish papers. After a while, they arrested many people with such documents and deported them to Auschwitz. Eichmann threatened to kill Wallenberg, eventually forcing him into hiding.
Your ship finally ties up at the Black Sea port of Odessa, where you notice something unusual. A group of Jewish children sitting on the dock, eating hard rolls and cheese, arouses your curiosity. You learn from the adultsthat these are Polish-Jewish children headed, with their adult guides for the Iranian city of Tehran. They have been formally converted to Catholicism in order to be accepted into the camps where members of the Polish army-in-exile are living. It is understood that they will return to Judaism after the war.
If you decide to join this group to help save the children from further difficulties and persecution, continue to page 84.
If, after learning that the Iranian border has been blocked, you choose to find another way to save the children, continue to page 85.