Part 4, Chapters 11-13 Summary

Chapter 11 reveals Funk's plan for eradication of the remaining Jews, as he discusses them with Von Epp. First, his troops will surround the ghetto; certain of them will attack and take the two factories, in which many Jews are living. Manhole covers will be carefully guarded, to prevent escape through the sewers, with the additional actions of dropping poisonous gas into them and placing barbed wire at the access points to the manholes. It is a well-planned attack that should clean out the ghetto. Von Epp laughs at Funk, stating that continued action against the Jews will only compound the evil for which their future generations will pay.

Meanwhile, as Chapter 12 shows, resistance leadership is making plans of its own. Stephan Bronski and two other female orphans are secretly taken to a priest's rectory for handover to a rural...