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At this time, Ingrid is off in another town teaching.

Many Jewish families were being relocated; many of them being Trudi's close friends. They would leave and then nobody would know what if they were still alive or dead.

After about nine months of waiting, Max Rudnick returned to see Trudi. Although she insists she does not want to see him or think about him, she secretly does. He asks her to go for a walk, and she turns him down. He leaves and comes back awhile later. He asks Trudi to dinner, and, again, she refuses. Secretly she was delighted with the invitation. He leaves again.

Then one day Trudi finds a woman and her son hiding in the earth nest that her mother used to hide in. Trudi tells them that they can trust her and her father and they want to help. They let them into the house and fed them. Over time, Trudi came to be really close to the boy, Konrad. She wishes that he were her own son. Times are really starting to change, and the mother and son were not going to be safe if they didn't have an escape route in the house, so they built an underground tunnel that led from their house to their neighbor's house. They stayed there for several weeks until Eva came to hide there. Soon it was time for the mother and son to hide elsewhere. They left and Eva remained. Eventually she needed to go home to see her husband, and when she got there, she was taken away by the Gestapo. Her husband was heartbroken.