Janina and the other children are hiding in th...

Janina and the other children are hiding in the cellar. She is afraid and feels exactly like during her last night in the ghetto. What will happen to her? The Ukrainians have surrounded the house. Suddenly there is a loud explosion. A Ukrainian bursts into the cellar. Janina prays, she thinks that this is it. But the Ukrainian says that they are here to keep them safe and he is sorry for the noise. In the end he says-'Goodnight children, sleep well'. Everyone is to stunned to reply.

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.