Pfefferberg’s defection from the OD shows that the situation in the ghetto is getting worse. The OD is partially made up of
Judenrat, which means that some Jewish people are even turning on their fellow Jewish citizens in the hope that it will earn them protection from the Nazis. This is yet another way in which life in Nazi-occupied Poland is morally ambiguous, as sometimes people’s only option to save themselves is to sacrifice others.