Five-year-old Franka arrives at the convent. J...

Five-year-old Franka arrives at the convent. Janina is to take care of her. Franka has lice and wounds on her head. Janina wants to save her from being shaved and applies disinfects on her hair.
Despite this, she does not get any sympathy from Franka. She remains silent. Janina wonders what kind of terrible things has she been through.

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.