Part 2, Chapters 17-20 Summary

The next four chapters continue to describe the worsening situation for the Jews in Warsaw and the responses of the various Jewish elements.

In Chapter 17, it is 1940, and all Warsaw Jews are in the ghetto. Further, Hitler is sending Jews in from Austria and Germany, and there is little room and not enough food and supplies for them. Most are forced to work in the now German-owned factories, two of which are in the ghetto itself. Jews who have enough money purchase "Aryan Papers" and live as non-Jews in nicer sections of Warsaw. Andrei, because of his blonde hair and Aryan features, has been able to obtain false papers and has freely traveled out of Warsaw to check on progress of underground presses he is building. He wants to begin a resistance movement but needs money that he knows...