Janina and her 'school' friends were on their...

Janina and her 'school' friends were on their way to their lessons to Mrs. Bloch's (their teacher's) apartment. They had their books and copy-books with them. On the street they met a man who demanded to know where were they going. It was obvious that he knew - they were in a trap. Luckily one of the boys turned the man's attention away and they all managed to run away in different directions.
From then on, books were always hidden in their clothes and lessons never repeated on the way to 'school'.

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.