Janina's best friend - Alice, by accident spil...

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  • Janina's best friend - Alice, by accident spills some boiling water on herself. Her whole face is covered with bandages and it is possible that she may never be able to see again.
    Janina takes over her student, which Alice was preparing for exams.

  • 1943-00-00
  • 1943-00-00
  • Autumn, 1943
  • education, private/everyday life
  • children, monastery/church
  • 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...

    • Unknown Alicja

      Janina's best friend in the convent.