Hannah and the others finally arrive at the concentration camp where they are quickly divided by gender and age. The ride on the train lasts for days and several children and infants do not survive. They are loaded onto trucks and driven off to a train station where they are herded into cattle cars with barely any room to breathe. She tries to explain why they must not go with the soldiers, but the adults explain that they have little choice. Hannah is the only one who knows what is actually about to happen. On their way to the village they are stopped by Nazi soldiers who insist they must come with them to be relocated. The disease claimed Chaya's parents and the adults assume Chaya is probably still grieving from this loss.Ī man named Shmuel is to be married to Fayge, a woman in a neighboring village. She insists that her name is Hannah and that she lives in America but Chaya's aunt and uncle, Gitl and Shmuel, dismiss these claims as effects of Chaya's ordeal with cholera, from which she barely recovered. There she inhabits the life of Chaya Abramowicz. When Hannah rises from the table to symbolically open the door for the prophet Elijah, she is transported to Poland in 1942. She is tired of hearing about the past and is uncomfortable listening to her Grandpa Will rant about his experiences in the concentration camp. She and her family, including her parents and younger brother Aaron, are to attend a Passover Seder at her grandparent's home. Hannah Stern is a young Jewish girl living in New Rochelle, NY.
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