In cellars, in barns, in holes dug in the ground under haystacks, in any place you can find, you hide. The farmers don't like a Jew hiding on their property because if you are discovered, they will also be killed. But even greater than their fear is their hatred of the invading Germans. So they offer some cooperation, and you are able to keep one jump ahead of the Nazis and their anti-Semitic Polish collaborators. In this way, you survive the war.
After the war, you return to Cracow, hoping to find your family, but you learn that they all died at Auschwitz. You do not find many Jews, there are only a few left.
While you are trying to reestablish your life in Cracow, a pogrom breaks out in the small city of Kielce. Over forty Jews are killed, and many others are beaten. A nine-year old boy had told the story that he was kidnapped by Jews and taken to a cellar where he saw fifteen Christian children murdered. This lie set off the violence. Only one Polish priest, Father Hendryk Werynski, speaks out from the pulpit against the pogrom, and he is quickly removed from his post. You are reminded that the Catholic Church in Poland is infected with hatred for the Jews.
This realization forces you to the conclusion that you must get out of Poland. There is no future for Jews here. With the help of Brichah, you travel west until you reach Feldafing, a Displaced Persons camp in southern Germany. When you finally receive a visa to settle in America, you are assigned to live in Mobile, Alabama. You know nothing about this city, but if this is the way for you to leave behind a Europe where millions of Jews have died, you'll go gladly.