In Vienna they get Registration forms on which they claim to be headed for Germany. They tour Vienna and Ruth realizes how many Jews are headed for Palestine.  Zvi tells jokes and convinces her to go to an opera.  Ruth feels numb and misses Leah.

Zvi finds out that the British are cracking down on the ships coming in to Palestine, sending immigrants to detention camps.  But they sing and dance on a train to the Italian border which means a ship to Palestine.  After the train rides, they go by truck, then walk.  Some girls are terrified to cross a mountain stream so some of the boys lay down across it, letting the girls walk on their backs.  Some get so tired they refuse to go further, the others almost carry them.

They arrive in the French zone of Austria, with unfriendly soldiers who don’t believe their papers and phone for someone to take them to a camp.
They stand and fight; the women join them.  They are beaten, but the French are bewildered and ashamed and decide to allow them to continue.  Italian guards laugh and wave them over.

Members of the Brichah pick them up; trucks and drivers disguised as British.  They are in Italy.
 

Discussion Director:
Section 5 (P47-57)

MCEOG question: While in Vienna Zvi convinces Ruth to go:
A: To a bar
B:  On a hayride
C: To an opera
D: Into a guardhouse to steal weapons
Answer: C (P48, last p)

Problem: Getting over the mountain stream (P53, middle)
Solution: The boys lay down in the water, letting others walk on their backs (P53, middle)

Prediction: Some of them will get very sick on this journey

Fact: Ruth misses Leah (P49, last p)
Opinion: It is Ruth’s opinion that she should not allow herself to become attached to anyone. (P49, last p)

Passage Picker:
Section 5 (P 47-57)

(P49, last) I sit on my bunk…. attached to anyone. An interesting way to show loneliness
Author’s Purpose: To inform the reader of Ruth’s feelings.
(P55, p1) “This is terrible…confused and stops.
I like this because it shows someone who has just won a fight willing to admit that they were wrong.
Author’s Purpose:  To inform the reader that the situation was confusing for many people, even adults and guards.

Character Sketcher:
section 5 (P47-57)

Zvi
Optimistic: (P50, p 3,4) “Never mind …at least we’ll be in Palestine.”
Stubborn: (P54, p1)  He stands unarmed to fight border guards with weapons. (P53, bottom) Ignores his discomforts.
Gallant: (P53, middle) Allows others to walk on his back as he lays in mountain stream

Goal: To cheer Ruth up and get her to realize all is not hopeless
Problem: (P53, bottom) He is cold, tired, hungry
Solution: (P53, bottom) He ignores it

Word Wizard:
section 5(P47-57)

Dilapidated (P48, p4) I’d heard travelers…speak of Vienna …how beautiful it was, how grand, how elegant, but today everything looks dilapidated and dirty.
Meaning: Shabby Adjective (describes Vienna – a noun)
Many cats hung around the dilapidated barn hunting for mice.

Partisans (P54, p2) Many of these women have survived by fighting as partisans against the Nazis and they certainly weren’t going to stand by…
Meaning: Fanatical fighters devoted to a particular cause: guerrillas
The partisans kept customers from entering the mall stores during the strike.

Bewildered (P55, top) Soon the scene was a grim one-almost all of us down and bleeding, the French soldiers standing among us looking bewildered and somewhat ashamed.
Meaning: puzzled Adjective (describes soldiers, a noun)
The bewildered students stared at the film strip which was spoken in German and subtitled in French.