Fear has given Vladek courage. Vladek supported his family by illegally trading with other people. Doing that requires a huge amount of courage as well as intelligence. His family had no income at all since the gestapo took over Vladek’s business. Fortunately, he had a mastermind that made his family survive with food and shelter. On the other hand, Anja was busy minding how to make her family as a whole. Though the Germans had an extremely manipulative method to make the elder Jews to show themselves, Vladek understood that was an allure. Luckily enough, the Germans never found out about the elders in Vladek’s family