Being at a young age of 10 and not being told the complete truth about what's going on and why there are so many Nazi soldiers on each corner of the street is exactly what Annemarie Johansen was going through. It is her Jewish best friend and her family that is getting the worst part of the whole thing. After King Christian X surrendered to the German's to prevent losing his whole town to war, Ellen Rosen is Annemarie's best friend. After the Nazi's starting relocated Jews they took Ellen in as their daughter as her parents were also taken from friends and put in a safe place.
             After all of Ellen's family is at Annemarie's Uncle Henrik's house they meet again and are being taken to a safe secret spot. They would be boated across to Sweden, which was not over taken by the Nazi's. As Ellen and Annemarie hugged and said goodbye, Annemarie was containing her tears. As Annemarie's mom, Inge, was on her way back from taking the Rosen's to the boat, she tripped over a tree root and broke her ankle. As they were going Mr. Rosen dropped a very important package that he was supposed to give to Uncle Henrik. It was Annemarie's responsibility to get it to him in time. She was to go through the dark path by herself and had already gotten to the meadow when 4 Nazi soldiers stopped her. She did not know what was in the package all she knew was that she was supposed to go and get it to them. After being searched, questioned, and the package torn open the officers left her alone. It was a handkerchief in the package. What had Uncle Henrik needed with a handkerchief She got herself together again and finally got it to him just about 20 minutes before they came and searched his boat. The handkerchief was what saved their lives. It had a mixture of rabbit's blood and cocaine on it so that the dogs would want to smell it, but once they did the cocaine would numb their noses and temporarily dama...