The hope that they will all survive or at wors...

The hope that they will all survive or at worst Janina alone will survive, was the only thing that kept her parents going. Without it, Celia would start weeping again and Mark would lie down on his bed and never get up again. Janina's safety and life was their only goal, which enabled them to stay alive.

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.