Celia believed that the war will soon be over...

Celia believed that the war will soon be over and that life will be normal again. She use to say that she would lead a different life after the war - no one would go from her door empty-handed, she would take care of poor children as well.
Mark interrupted her dreams saying that after the war the Russians will induce Communism in Poland and no one will have anything of their own.
' Go to sleep - such thinking is called pessimism, and I cannot have that'- replied Celia.

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.