Question about the end (SPOILER)
The family, except for the grandmother, travels west via train. However, they are in a box car of a freight train! The war is over and they are not being transported to a camp.
Was it common for travelers to board box cars of freight trains?
I realize that hobos did this during the depression in the U.S., but I was surprised to see this in the movie, since this is the method the Nazis used in transporting Jews to the camps.