Mrs. Lala visits Janina. She is a beautician a...

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  • Mrs. Lala visits Janina. She is a beautician and works for Eric. She brings food, vitamin pills, clothes and news that Eric had been arrested because of her. He is out now but he still doesn't feel well. Maybe Janina will have to leave the convent. Eric thinks that if they arrest him next time he might not be able to help himself and he thinks it will be safer if Janina goes somewhere else, where he doesn't know her address.

  • 1944-00-00
  • 1944-00-00
  • Germans operations, help
  • children, Gestapo/gendarmerie, monastery/church, material help
  • 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 Lala

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