After Mr. Roth's death, the Davids are the onl...

  • YES

  • After Mr. Roth's death, the Davids are the only family left in their house. They decide that it is time to move out.

  • 1942-08-00
  • 1942-08-00
  • August, 1942
  • deportation
  • private life / daily life
  • atmosphere, housing

  • 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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    • Roth Unknown

      A widower, a father of two twin daughters. He committed suicide when he discovered that his girls had been deported.