![]() ![]() They decide to rest in a wheat field, but are woken up by a farmer with a rifle, who orders Max and Zena to follow him. ![]() Max and Zena take off as quickly as they can run. When the soldier aims his rifle at her, Max, with sudden, angry strength, throws himself at the soldier, who falls and gets shot in the leg when his rifle goes off. On the way, Max and the soldier hear a noise and both realize that Zena is following them. And those berries are good, right up until the moment that a Nazi soldier points his rifle at Max's head.īarking commands, the Nazi marches Max away from the ghetto. ![]() But they couldn't reach any, so, with the coast clear of any Nazi soldiers, Max decides to slip under the barbed wire just for a moment to get some berries for Zena. When Max and Zena noticed a bush full of ripe raspberries just outside the barbed wire fence that surrounded the ghetto, they couldn't resist them. Before she disappeared, his Aunt Hannah had told Max not to let the Nazis take his hope away, too, but that is pretty hard to keep hold of now. Their mother had died a while ago, and then, the Nazis had taken away their father in the middle of the night. Living inside the Jewish ghetto in Esties, Poland is difficult for everyone, but especially for Max Rosen, 11, and his younger sister Zena. ![]()
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