Read the excerpt from rena kornreich gelissen’s rena's promise: two sisters in auschwitz. that night changed everything. it had become dangerous for me to live in tylicz. . papa deliberated long and hard over whom to contact about smuggling me across the border. andrzej had been fighting the germans when poland had first been invaded, but he’d been fortunate enough to escape capture; returning secretly to tylicz, he was now working for the polish resistance. the details of the passage indicate that the narrative takes place in world war i europe. in world war ii europe. in world war i united states. in world war ii united states.