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7. Act Out

Deciding to Escape

So we decided to escape - but how do you escape? From where?
What do we do? If we want to dig a tunnel and escape - we need
equipment, and there will be noise… And what do we do with
the soil? But we have no time, the war is already out there,
what? Will we wait here until we have an idea? What will we
do?
One of the friends had an idea - we have a friend at the
Jerusalem municipality. We can ask him for plans of the sewage
system, and the sewage system runs here, through this room, so
we can dig and get to the sewage. But we still have the problems
of the noise, the equipment and the soil. And then a good idea
came up - we turned to the British and told them - "You like
order and cleanliness, right?"
"Right!"
"In order to clean this room, which is a room much bigger than
the other rooms - we need to pour water."
“Very well, pour water,” said the British.
But here we raised a problem: If we pour water, what do we do
with it? You cannot scoop water out when there is a step here…
"Look", we said to the British, "it is impossible to take out the
water."
So the British asked, "Do you have a suggested solution?"
So we said "Yes. If it is possible to dig some kind of a small tub
inside the room, we can scoop the water into the tub and take the
water out with a bucket". The British said, "Fine, great idea!"
So the British gave us tools, the British gave us authorization to
make a digging noise, and we also had authorization to take the
soil out. Clever, no?
So now that we have all the authorizations we need, we can start
digging… Simultaneously with the tub, we dug a tub but we also
dug the way out.

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