<P> At her "uncle's" wedding, the Nazis come to transport the entire population of the village to a concentration camp near Donavin, and only Hannah knows all the terrors they will face: starvation, mistreatment, forced labor, and finally execution . She struggles to survive at the camp, with the help of a girl named Rivka . Uncle Shmuel and some other men try to escape; the men are caught . Fayge, who was going to be married to Shmuel, is killed because she runs to Shmuel when he is about to be shot with the men that were caught . Yitzchak escaped and lived in the forest with the partisans, fighting the Germans . </P> <P> Later, when Hannah, Rivka, Esther, and Shifre are working, a guard overhears them talking instead of working . Shifre tries to reassure the guard they have been working, but he takes them anyway and leaves Hannah by herself . As the three are about to leave, Hannah takes Rivka's place by putting on her babushka . Since the guards don't know their faces, this goes unnoticed by the officer . The women are led to the gas chamber . She is then transported back to her family's Seder . Aunt Eva calls her over . Hannah looks at Aunt Eva's number; it is the same as Rivka's . </P> <P> Hannah (when she was Chaya) was really the woman she was named after, Rivka was Aunt Eva, and Rivka's brother, Wolfe, was Grandpa Will . (Aunt Eva said that they changed their names when they got to America .) </P> <P> The epilogue at the end of the novel reveals that when the camp was liberated, the survivors were Gitl (weighing a mere seventy - three pounds), Yitzchak, Rivka, and Leye (a worker in the camp) and her baby . Gitl and Yitzchak immigrate to Israel where Yitzchak becomes a politician while Gitl organizes a rescue mission that is dedicated to salvaging the lives of young survivors and locating family members . The organization is named after Chaya, her niece that died a hero . </P>

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