![]() An old woman named Magda emerges and says that she cannot give them shelter. ![]() Eventually, the children reach an isolated hut. Hansel crumbles his last slice of bread as they walk in hopes that the Stepmother will follow his trail to find them. The Stepmother suggests that they go by Hansel and Gretel.ฤก1-year-old Gretel Cegielski leads Hansel, her 7-year-old brother, through the woods. Before the Stepmother and the Mechanik leave the children, she warns them not to use their real names or otherwise give away their Judaism. The adults, later known as the Mechanik and the Stepmother, decide that they must abandon the children in the forest if any of them hope to survive. The unnamed family consists of a father, his wife, and two children, all fleeing a Polish ghetto. On a cold night, a Jewish family races along a wooded road in the western part of the country with Nazi soldiers in pursuit. German forces control Poland, occupying even its small villages. ![]() It is the winter of 1943, and World War II has gripped Europe for more than 4 years. ![]()
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