Going through the ruined city was a terrible e...

Going through the ruined city was a terrible experience. The German, who lead the group ordered the directions in which everyone should look. He wanted to spare the children the worst sights. But Janina no longer felt like a child and she wanted to look. She saw piles of masacred bodies and burned houses. She wanted to scream, run away as fast as possible.

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.