Mark still smuggles food into the ghetto. Than...

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  • Mark still smuggles food into the ghetto. Thanks to this and the couple which left them the keys to their flat, his family now has more food than they had seen from the beginning of the war. Milk, butter, cheese and even eggs arrived in Mark's pockets.

  • 1942-09-00
  • 1942-09-00
  • September, 1942
  • in the ghetto
  • business
  • smuggling, everyday life
  • 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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