They would transport photoless false
identity cards (they would not know how many they were carrying) from
Vilne to Hrodno, a routine trip. They would make contact in three days (they would not know their contact's name), which
would give them time to pack carefully. They would make their way through
Ponar, using the skills they’d been trained in and their own cunning, and head
south. Both
sisters had Aryan features and would be dressed as Aryans in kerchiefs, and
both would speak German, which they had learned as children from their
grandmother. Even when they were two alone, speaking to each other, they would speak German to eliminate a possible
error of intuition or habit (they would not know who was listening). They packed
their rucksacks together, sharing where they could and providing advice, one to
the other. The older would carry the hairbrush and tooth powder; the younger
took both extra pairs of bulky wool socks. In the morning, each would receive a
starless coat and a packet of life to hide under her skirts, and they would walk away into
the unknowable woods.