summarize pages 18-24

The perspective changes to Josef in Berlin, but now it is 1939. Josef, his mother, and sister walk through the busy train station as if they are invisible - everyone ignoring them because of their Star of David armbands. On the train they sit in the compartment for Jews. Their mother has booked them all passage on a ship to Cuba, since most countries were not accepting any more Jewish refugees. They hoped eventually from there they could get to the United States. Ruthie wants to take her coat off but her mother stops her. Ruthie carries with her her stuffed rabbit Bitsy. Once on the train, Ruthie and Josef’s mother start to nap. Josef slides off his armband and walks into the other compartment. He buys a paper, but as he goes to pay his armband slips out of his pocket and is stomped on by a Hitler Youth. The boy grabs him and starts to drag him away.