A couple spends the night at the Davids apartm...

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  • A couple spends the night at the Davids apartment. To their astonishment they both had fur jackets and a lot of food. The man shows Mark some papers. They have planned to escape the ghetto the next day. They will head south to the mountains and than cross the border to Turkey or even Persia.
    The Davids listened with disbelief. The women gave Celia some clothes and the man gave Mark a bunch of keys - ' Go to our flat, you will find a lot of food, take it before it goes bad'.
    The next day they left.

  • 1942-09-21
  • 1942-09-21
  • September 21, 1942
  • deportation
  • private life / daily life
  • atmosphere, escaping the ghetto, private 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.

  • 194-195

  • Related people:

    • David Mark

      Janina David\'s beloved father. When the war broke he left Poland and settled in Russia. He wanted his wife and chil...

    • David Celia

      Janina David's mother. She was raised in a wealthy family. She had studied in Warsaw.

    • 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...

    • Para Unknown

      The probably escaped from the ghetto. They were going to head south, to the mountains, than across the border to Tur...