A policeman informed Janina and her mother of...

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  • A policeman informed Janina and her mother of Zyggie's death. ' We must not tell father anything until he has had his dinner. Otherwise he will rush over there on an empty stomach'- was Celia's only comment.

  • 1942-00-00
  • 1942-00-00
  • in the ghetto
  • private life / daily life
  • atmosphere, death
  • At the age of nine Janina David was leading a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland. One year later they were all facing starvation in the Warsaw ghetto.
    In the memoirs of wartime childhood Janina David describes the family's struggle against insurmountable odds. When it becomes clear that none of them was likely to survive, the thirteen-year old girl was smuggled out of the ghetto to live with family friends - a Polish woman and her German - born husband. When their home becomes too dangerous, she was sent with false identity papers to a Catholic convent, where she lived in constant fear of being discovered.

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    • David Janina

      She was born in Poland, the only child of a middle-class Jewish family. She lost her parents during the war years an...

    • David Celia

      Janina David's mother. She was raised in a wealthy family. She had studied in Warsaw.

    • David Zygmunt

      Janina David\'s cousin, she used to call him Zyggie. During the Warsaw bombing he was injured.He suffered from diabe...