The author of the memoir was living in Tylicz, small village in Poland. She writes about the Holocaust horror and her survival in the story. The relevant answer according to the excerpt is the second one - the sense of uncertainty people experienced while trying to escape the Nazis during the Holocaust. Not only for this story, but for all Jews during the times of terror the situation was uncertain. They were trying to survive in many different forms in order to escape this horror although the escape was impossible many times. Other answers don't mention this relevance except the second one.