Janina finds out why did she suffer such hunge...
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Janina finds out why did she suffer such hunger in her former convent. It turned out that the Germans wanted the eldest girls to go as slave labour to Germany. Mother Superior refused to let them go. In revenge the Germans cancelled all their ration cards and the convent became self-supporting.
- 1944-00-00
- 1944-00-00
- economic
- monastery/church, sent to work in Germany
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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. - 321
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