Once a month Mother Superior goes to visit Eri...

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  • Once a month Mother Superior goes to visit Eric. She always brings a parcel of food for Janina and some letters, telling her that everything was well at 'home'.

  • 1944-00-00
  • 1944-00-00
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  • 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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    • Matka Przełożona Unknown

      Mother Superior in the convent where Janina David is staying.