When Alex, Father, and Boruch get separated during the selection Alex follows specific direction from Father to hide in an abandoned apartment on Bird Street. After not eating for several days, Alex realizes that he desperately need food and water. He remembers that his father and the Gryns had set up a bunker for this very reason. Alex carefully goes to the bunker to look for food, but the Gryns give him very little. As Alex patiently waits for his father to return, he comes to realize that his hiding spot isn't the best place to be hiding. He uses the many skills that his dad had taught him, i.e. how to use a gun, how to care for injuries, many different knots for rope ladders, and ect., to set up a better hiding spot on the top floors of seventy-eight Bird Street.
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They find that there is a bunker right beneath the ground; something that Alex had never known about. After the family is taken away and the soldiers have left, Alex discovers that the bunker had running water, plenty of food, a shower, kerosene burners, and takes it before the soldiers or looters would take it all. While hiding for five months Alex gives up hope that his father is coming back. But one day Alex was on his way to the cellar and had already raised the ladder behind him hears voices
They find that there is a bunker right beneath the ground; something that Alex had never known about. After the family is taken away and the soldiers have left, Alex discovers that the bunker had running water, plenty of food, a shower, kerosene burners, and takes it before the soldiers or looters would take it all. While hiding for five months Alex gives up hope that his father is coming back. But one day Alex was on his way to the cellar and had already raised the ladder behind him hears voices