Resistance

Chaya wakes up and realizes that they have overslept; it is already morning, and the day is bright and sunny. Despite it being dangerous for them to travel in daylight, they have no time to waste and set forth.

Along the path, they meet a woman with a basket of eggs who is immediately suspicious of Esther. Chaya tells her that they are from Lodz and on their way to meet their grandmother, and the woman reveals that she sells eggs at Lodz, asking Esther if she has seen her before on Bracka Street. Bracka Street is inside the Lodz Ghetto, and the woman voices her conviction that Esther is a Jew who escaped from Lodz, despite Chaya presenting her with identification papers.

The conversation is interrupted by an older man driving a horse wagon, who introduces himself as Wit Golinksi; he claims to know the girls’ grandmother and offers to take them to her, interrupting the woman with the eggs when she tries to point out that Esther is a Jew. With no choice but to accept the ride from Wit, Chaya and Esther climb onto his wagon.