Eric pics Janina up from the street and takes...

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  • Eric pics Janina up from the street and takes her to his apartment. Lydia is there and greets her warmly. Everyone is happy that she is staying for good.
    Janina keeps thinking that she must behave well, always do what she is told and never disgrace her family and somehow she must survive...

  • 1943-01-00
  • 1943-01-00
  • in the Ghetto
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  • atmosphere , children, hosts
  • 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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    • Unknown Lydia

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