does anyone have news from vilna?
at least here we are safe.
you get rid of them quicker if you boil them.
yesterday, potatoes with beets, today, beets with potatoes. special treat tomorrow. potato soup. with beets. not far away, arkady and several others have created a primitive still -- turning potatoes into vodka.
i can't, lilka.  i'm pregnant.
i've kept it hidden for months but now it's obvious. no one can know. they move away from the others. tamara shows her.
it could come any day.
i--- it was when i was escaping. a man with a gun stopped me. i thought he was a partisan. he told me to follow him and he took me to this place.  the memory overwhelms her. she begins to break down.
inside me something broke. i wanted to die. every night i have nightmares -- what will happen when tuvia finds out.
no. you mustn't tell him!
i feel this new life inside me. it's the only thing keeping me going. i won't give it up, i'll kill myself. lilka puts her arm around her.
in there?