Book 4, Chapters 5-7 Summary

These three chapters cover the proactive moves of the Joint Forces, composed of all Jews remaining in the ghetto, including some secretive members still working in the factories. Chapter 5 includes the moves against the Jewish Militia and the prison they maintain, in collaboration with the Nazis. Joint Forces members take the prison, free the prisoners and lock up all of the guards. They then take the prison director, engage in a bit of his own torture methods, and he provides a wealth of information, specifically the location of hidden stores and money and information about Nazi officials in Warsaw. He is eventually executed.

Chapter 6 finds Mila 19 destroyed during a raid, and the Joint Forces needs a new headquarters and bunker for the remaining three to four hundred Jews remaining in the ghetto. Alex is certain that smuggler Moritz Katz...