Chapter 6

CHAPTER 6 The men left the barn quietly, leaving Aunt Hannah, Max, and Zena alone with their hugs and tears. Max and Zena told her about their escape from the brutal Nazi soldier and how Mr. Jablonski had rescued them. Aunt Hannah listened with wide eyes, gripping their hands. "Where is your papa?" she asked. Max and Zena both looked down. "The Nazis took him," Max said finally. "A month ago." "We don't know where he is," Zena told her.

男人们安静地离开了谷仓，留下汉娜姨妈、马克斯和泽娜独自拥抱和流泪。 马克斯和泽娜向她讲述了他们从残暴的纳粹士兵手中逃脱的故事，以及雅布伦斯基先生是如何救了他们的。 汉娜姨妈睁大眼睛听着，紧紧抓住他们的手。 “你爸爸在哪儿?”她问。 马克斯和泽娜都低下了头。 “纳粹抓走了他，”马克斯最后说。 “一个月前。”“我们不知道他在哪里，”泽娜告诉她。

Aunt Hannah seemed to stop breathing. It was a long moment before she spoke. "I wanted us all to escape together," she said softly. "I begged your papa. But he refused. He said it was too dangerous. Like most people, he wanted to believe that if we just went along with the Nazis, things would be okay. He didn't want to accept the truth — that the Nazis are more evil than we could have ever imagined." Aunt Hannah's words seemed to burrow deep into Max's mind, to a place where he kept his darkest fears. And in a flash, he understood: that all of those rumors he'd heard in the ghetto were true. The Nazis were cold-blooded killers. "Your papa and I had the most terrible fights," she said. Max remembered the argument he'd overheard, and Aunt Hannah's pleading words. "We all must go." "And then it was too late," Aunt Hannah said. "I never even got to say good-bye, to tell you

汉娜姨妈似乎停止了呼吸。 过了好一会儿她才开口。 “我想让我们一起逃走，”她轻声说。 “我求过你爸爸。但他拒绝了。 他说那太危险了。 和大多数人一样，他愿意相信，只要我们跟着纳粹走，事情就会好起来。 他不想接受事实——纳粹比我们想象的要邪恶得多。” 汉娜姨妈的话似乎深深地埋在马克斯的心里，埋进了他内心最黑暗的恐惧。 刹那间，他明白了:他在犹太区听到的所有谣言都是真的。 纳粹是冷血杀手。 “你爸爸和我大吵了一架，”她说。 麦克斯想起了他无意中听到的争吵，还有汉娜姨妈恳求的话语。 “我们都得去。”“然后一切都太晚了，”汉娜姨妈说。 “我甚至都没来得及说再见，没来得及告诉你

where I was going." "Where did you go?" Max asked. "There are Jews hiding in the forests who are fighting back against the Nazis," she said. "There are hundreds of them. I joined them." "You're a soldier?" Zena asked, her eyes wide. "Not a regular soldier," Aunt Hannah said. She explained that she was a partisan, a special kind of fighter. She did not belong to a real army, with uniforms and shining weapons. They could not go into battle against the Nazis — they didn't stand a chance against the German Panzer tanks and bombers and heavy machine guns. Instead, they worked in small groups, plotting surprise attacks. They blew up trains loaded with supplies and weapons, burned down factories that made German uniforms and guns, and ambushed troops in daring nighttime raids. Aunt Hannah said there were hundreds of partisan groups hiding in the forests around

我要去的地方。”“你去哪儿了?”马克斯问道。 “有些犹太人躲在森林里反抗纳粹，”她说。 “有好几百个。 我加入了他们。”“你是军人?”泽娜睁大眼睛问。 “不是正规军，”汉娜姨妈说。 她解释说，她是一名游击队员，一种特殊的战士。 她不属于一个真正的军队，有制服和闪亮的武器。 他们无法与纳粹作战——他们根本没有机会对抗德国的坦克、轰炸机和重机枪。 相反，他们以小组为单位，策划出其不意的袭击。 他们炸毁了满载物资和武器的火车，烧毁了制造德国军服和枪支的工厂，并在大胆的夜间突袭中伏击军队。 汉娜姨妈说，周围的森林里藏着几百个游击队

Poland and other countries in the east. Not all partisans were Jewish, but everyone in Aunt Hannah's group was, including Martin and Lev, the two men here with her. Altogether there were twenty-four fighters in Aunt Hannah's group, she explained. Most were young men. But there were some older people too, and four other women besides Aunt Hannah. They lived together in a hideout deep in Loda Forest, an endless stretch of pitch-black woods about fifteen miles north of here. Max stared at his aunt as she talked. She had the same glittering green eyes he remembered so well. But Aunt Hannah had changed, and it wasn't just her chopped hair and her man's shirt and trousers. Her dreamy expression had hardened into one of toughness and determination. Aunt Hannah was no longer a carefree teenager from Esties. She was fighting the Nazis!

波兰和其他东部国家。 并不是所有的游击队员都是犹太人，但汉娜姑妈那一组的每个人都是犹太人，包括马丁和列弗，也就是和她在一起的两个人。 汉娜姨妈那一组总共有24名战士，她解释说。 大多数是年轻人。但也有一些老人，除了汉娜姨妈，还有四个女人。 他们一起住在洛达森林深处的一个藏身处，那是一片漆黑的森林，从这里往北大约十五英里。 麦克斯在姨妈说话时盯着她。 她有一双他记忆犹新的闪闪发光的绿眼睛。 但汉娜姑妈变了，不仅仅是她剪短的头发和男人的衬衫和裤子。 她那梦幻般的表情变得坚毅而坚定。 汉娜姨妈不再是来自埃斯蒂斯无忧无虑的少女了。 她在和纳粹作战!

But was it really possible for a group of ragtag soldiers to take on the entire Germany military? Hitler had millions of soldiers fighting for him! Then Max thought of a Bible story he'd loved when he was little — about the Jewish boy David who'd fought against the monstrous warrior Goliath. The Jews were in the middle of a war back then, too, fighting against their most feared enemy, the Philistines. And Goliath was the most terrifying Philistine warrior of all. He stood nine feet tall, with the finest bronze armor and sharpest sword and javelin. Goliath taunted the Jews, daring them to send their toughest soldiers to fight him. But nobody would accept Goliath's challenge. Even the most famous Jewish warriors said it was hopeless, that no Jew stood a chance against Goliath. But David refused to believe that. He wasn't a soldier, just a shepherd. He didn't have armor or a

但是，一群乌合之众的士兵真的有可能对抗整个德国军队吗? 希特勒有数百万士兵为他而战!接着，马克斯想起了他小时候喜欢的一个圣经故事——一个犹太男孩大卫与可怕的勇士歌利亚作战的故事。 当时犹太人也正处于战争之中，与他们最可怕的敌人非利士人作战。 歌利亚是最可怕的非利士人战士。 他身高九英尺，身穿最精美的青铜盔甲，手持最锋利的长剑和标枪。 歌利亚嘲弄犹太人，挑衅他们派最强壮的士兵去与他作战。 但没有人会接受歌利亚的挑战。 即使是最著名的犹太战士也说这是没有希望的，没有犹太人有机会对抗歌利亚。 但是大卫不相信。 他不是士兵，只是个牧羊人。 他没有盔甲，也没有

sword, only a slingshot. But he was fierce and smart and determined to fight. Goliath just laughed when skinny David stepped up to fight him. But then David shot at him with his slingshot. One small rock struck Goliath in the head. Goliath fell to the ground. David lunged forward and grabbed Goliath's sword and — whack! — he chopped off Goliath's head. The Jews soon won the war, and David became their king. Looking at Aunt Hannah now, as she gripped her battered rifle, Max thought she looked every bit as fierce as David must have. And a feeling came over him, as if he'd found something he'd lost, something precious. His hope. Max had a million more questions to ask Aunt Hannah, but there was no time. "It's a long trip back to the forest," she said. "We have to leave soon."

剑，只有弹弓。但他很凶猛，很聪明，决心要战斗。 当瘦弱的大卫走上前去与歌利亚搏斗时，歌利亚只是笑了。 但是大卫用弹弓朝他射去。 一块小石头击中了歌利亚的头部。 歌利亚倒在地上。 大卫冲上前去，抓起歌利亚的剑——砰!——他砍下了歌利亚的头。 犹太人很快赢得了战争，大卫成为了他们的国王。 现在，马克斯看着汉娜姑妈，她紧握着那支破旧的步枪，觉得她看上去一定和大卫一样凶狠。 一种感觉涌上心头，仿佛他找到了丢失的东西，一件珍贵的东西。 他的希望。马克斯还有无数的问题要问汉娜姨妈，但没有时间了。 “回到森林要走很长一段路，”她说。 “我们必须马上离开。”