Eric visits agian. This time he brings the boy...

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  • Eric visits agian. This time he brings the boys along. He has got some news from father, he got some letters from him lately. Mark writes that he is hiding in a small town in somebodies cellar. He has had pneumonia, but he is better now. In every letter he asks about Celia - is she with them? Eric doesn't know where Celia is and quickly changes the subject.
    Janina never had any doubts that her parents were alive and now she was terrified with fear about them. Where was her mother? The name of the town from where her father had been writing was situated close to one of the biggest concentration camps. Was it really a town from which he was writing?

  • 1943-00-00
  • Autumn, 1943
  • private/everyday life
  • children, monastery/church, communication
  • 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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  • Related people:

    • 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 Mark

      Janina David\'s beloved father. When the war broke he left Poland and settled in Russia. He wanted his wife and chil...

    • Unknown Eric

      The owner of one of the biggest hairdressers saloon in Warsaw.