Chapters 63 through Epilogue Summary

In chapter sixty-three, they travel first by truck and then are put on a train. They crowd toward the doors in order to make the car look full and succeed in keeping the car much less crowded with only thirty-three people in the car. A little girl who had traveled with them on the first train tells Lina her name is Janina. They learn that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and consider what that might mean for the war effort. In chapter sixty-four, a girl dies and her mother jumps off the train when her body is removed. The soldiers shoot her. Janina tells the bald man that Hitler might be killing Jews. The bald man, who is a Jew, says Hitler is killing Jews.

In chapter sixty-five, the train stops and Lina sees Kretsky waiting outside. She realizes...