Summary

Feliks and Stasha arrive in Warsaw, and the city is in ruins, but people are making repairs. The Warsaw Zoo is abandoned of animals and Mengele is, of course, not there. Stasha finds a jar in the dirt filled with names of children who have been rescued by the Jewish Resistance. Feliks tells Stasha that she is not immortal, that this was a lie Mengele told all of the children. He is surprised that she had actually believed it.

They find a house Feliks used to live in with his family, and inside is a pregnant Roma woman in the throes of labor. She is in distress and Stasha must cut her open to get the baby out. Stasha plans to take the baby to the orphanage and then end her own life with the cyanide pill, hoping to...